Word: bolivar
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Nathan Hale and Simón Bolivar...
Misty-eyed Democrats, pouring in to say goodbye, found Harry Truman's White House office oddly naked last week. Down from the walls had come the portraits of Simón Bolivar and Ben Franklin, the etchings of early aircraft, the framed photographs of Sam Rayburn and Alben Barkley. Gone from the presidential desk were the familiar knickknacks-a piece of rock from the highest mountain in North America (Mt. McKinley: 20,270 ft.), the donkeys, and the desk photos. Said Harry Truman with rueful jocularity: "If I'd known how much packing I'd have...
...government-run Bolivian Mining Corp. It was the most important act of nationalization in Latin America since Mexico seized the foreign oil companies in 1938. For better or for worse, it made the nationalist government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro the most important since SimÓn Bolivar founded the republic...
...Revolutions. But as Bolivians themselves say, theirs has been a land of the future for four centuries. Since Bolivar won them independence, they have had 179 revolutions, an average of one every nine months. They have lost four wars and half of their territory. Their outlet to the sea was lost to Chile in the "War of the Pacific...
...years, he burned with an unquenchable conviction that the U.S. had "enslaved" his native Puerto Rico. In his cell in the District of Columbia prison, the fanatical nationalist spent his time studying Latin, teaching a fellow prisoner Spanish, poring over the biographies of the great liberators Bolivar and San Martin. He would sign no petition for clemency on his behalf addressed to the White House. To his wife Rosa, he wrote: "[I] refuse to play the slave asking his master for mercy...