Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker, President of Eastern Air Lines, learned that his company had won a legal victory of sorts in a District of Columbia court. In a $500,000 suit against Bolivian Pilot Erick Rios Bridoux, who crashed his P-38 fighter plane into one of Eastern's liners over...
...certainly still intends to nationalize the mines, but he apparently means to go slow. For one thing, recognition from Washington may depend on moderation. One rumor circulating in La Paz is that the government will take over the entire dollar income of the mine owners, and pay them in Bolivian currency at a loaded rate to hold profits down...
...Wanted? Because revolutions often become epidemic, some fear that the Batista coup and last week's Bolivian revolt may be followed by explosions elsewhere, possibly in Ecuador or Colombia. But nobody in Latin America, except the Communists and the neo-fascist fringe, professes to want any other kind of government except democracy. In the long run, as hunger and ignorance are dealt with, democracy may yet win in Latin America, though it is likely to be quite different from the U.S. variety...
...windswept Bolivian tin-mining center of Oruro, garishly garbed Indian miners paraded through the streets last week behind some 60 mules and oxen laden with silverware and assorted household objects. Arriving at the Church of the Virgin of the Cave, patroness of Oruro tin diggers, the marchers symbolically offered their silver and china to the Virgin -just as their ancestors brought metal and pottery objects to their gods to seek good fortune. Then an Indian cast in the role of Lucifer, masked and cloaked in red velvet, capered into the area before the church doors. Thus began La Diablada...
...Divine Orpheus), these religious dramatizations, similar to the earlier English mystery plays, reached their peak popularity. After that, their appeal dwindled and they all but disappeared from the holy-days celebrations outside the churches of the Spanish-speaking world. But in remote Oruro, 12,000 ft. up in the Bolivian Andes, the auto still flourishes with strong Indian overtones, and last week, as usual at carnival time, the show...