Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Commonwealth. Australia indicated that she would supply 10,000 men; the United Kingdom at least a brigade (about 5,000 men); New Zealand a combat force of unspecified strength. (At week's end 4,000 New Zealanders had volunteered.) Turkey offered 4,500 troops, Siam 4,000; Bolivia promised 30 officers...
...Venezuela, Ibáñez in Chile and Leguía in Peru. It does not compare unfavorably with the picture a dozen years ago, when Vargas was dictator in Brazil, Ubico in Guatemala, Martinez in El Salvador, Carías in Honduras, Benavides in Peru, Busch in Bolivia, and Terra in Uruguay...
Barefoot Indian and mestizo youngsters swarmed last week into La Paz for a homemade-auto derby promoted by Bolivia's leading newspaper, La Razon. Some 10,000 spectators lined a twomile, zigzagging, up & downhill race course. Among 250 drivers was one seven-year-old who came equipped with a white smock and first-aid kit; he listed his car as an ambulance, won the right to enter it. The Catavi tin-mining region sent six entrants whose expenses had been paid by subscription. One boy, asked whether he had brakes on his car, replied...
...dissident elements in Bolivia-Socialists, Communists, Trotskyites, members of the pro-fascist Movement of National Revolution-dropped mutual hates to back the teachers. Rail, bank, factory and transport unions joined in to make it a general strike...
Genial José Gallostra was one of Franco Spain's key diplomatic salesmen in Latin America. Wherever he went-in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico-he diligently peddled the doctrine of Hispanidad, the brotherhood of Spanish-speaking people...