Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil last week won a heat in its race with Argentina for a share in the cattle, oil and forest riches of landlocked Bolivia. With a 30-man entourage, Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra flew to the Bolivian town of San José de Chiquitos for a meeting with Bolivia's President Enrique Hertzog. The occasion: the opening of a Brazilian-built railroad connecting San José with Corumbá, Brazil-part of a system that will eventually stretch 2,500 miles across the continent from Santos to the Chilean port of Arica...
Three days later, Llosa finished the revolution as methodically as he had begun it. While the rest of the army closed in on his rebellious garrison-but before a drop of blood was shed-he and seven of his officers beat it across the border to Bolivia. Before going, he sent the change back to the bank-95,000 of the 100,000 soles he had borrowed-along with his personal note for the 5,000 soles which the revolution had cost...
...Ecuador and Bolivia...
Enraged and embittered, the Patinos left Bolivia in 1924, from that time on directed the empire from their Paris mansion, Nice chateau, villa at Biarritz or their yacht...
...hopes to keep the world cartel from reforming. Moreover, since the richer Malayan mines can turn out better ore at lower cost than Bolivia, Albina has no assurance that the British would want it. But the U.S. is in no position to fight tin producers...