Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes were out on wires and I was grinding my teeth. When I chopped that shit, it fell apart like dog biscuit. Bolivian rock. I didn't care. I just made the rails about eight feet and blew myself a daydream with a McDonald's straw. Let them try and stop...
Pereda had been the armed forces' preferred candidate for President. The difficulty with the election was that he turned out to be the choice on entirely too many ballots. The electoral court noted that there were 49,412 more votes cast than there were registered Bolivian voters. Pereda had been credited with 50.13% of the total vote when the counting stopped, less than two-thirds completed...
...documentary texture. Fortunately, this questionable device is partially offset by Hanser's unflinching look at the more excruciating encounter sessions among the trainees. These sequences are integrated into the film's discussion of the three major instincts of man according to the teachings of Arica's guru, a Bolivian named Oscar Ichazo. In one instance, a young man in his 20s recalls a confrontation with his father which prompted him to call his father "stupid." The camera records the young man's acute sense of remorse over the incident, which reduces him to a childlike condition as he plaintively cries...
Graziella's father Jorge Ortiz-Patińo, 50, a nephew of Bolivian Tin Tycoon Antenor Patińo, made an emotional plea to the kidnapers. Graziella, he said, "is a delightful little girl, an innocent little girl who is life itself. Please don't let her suffer too much." Ortiz-Patińo, whose family fortune is estimated at $300 million, was reported ready to pay a large ransom for his daughter's release...
...group blundered about for eleven months. Che made many tactical errors. Instead of expanding, as the poor rushed to join them, the group suffered steady losses in skirmishes and from disease, and finally became isolated without the peasant support it needed and had counted on so heavily. Che's Bolivian diaries, smuggled out and published, spells out the frustration he felt all through the summer of 1967. They tell a story of lost comrades, sickness, errors, missed opportunities, and finally, a tightening circle. Through September there are almost daily comments on the radio broadcasts which report him dead. The entry...