Word: bolivian
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...Paraguay, a landlocked dictatorship the size of California, has only 450 miles of paved roads, and in Venezuela, which is three times larger than Italy, the state railroad moves on a total of 220 miles of track. The armchair traveler learns that dueling is still legal in Uruguay, that Bolivian jails do not feed the prisoners (who must depend on handouts from friends or relatives), and that Recife, a Brazilian coast city of 1,000,000 population, has 40,000 registered prostitutes. Colombia boasts more than 700 varieties of orchids. Venezuela, on the other hand, has 32 kinds of eagles...
...tiny village of Shanao, Belaúnde asked the name of a new bridge that was going up. "The Rio Mayo," answered a local official. "No," Belaúnde corrected. "Henceforth, this will be known as the Bolivia Bridge, in honor of the great Bolivian President." Not to be outdone, Barrientos announced that he was naming a small town on the Bolivian stretch of the highway "Fernando Belaúnde Terry...
...also provided that both countries would 1) improve the existing railroad service between La Paz and Peru's southern coast, 2) "formalize and enlarge" an agreement covering free navigation on the waters of the Amazon Basin, 3) discuss the possibility of a pipeline across Peru to transport Bolivian petroleum to a Peruvian coastal port...
...Indians, Lake Tahoe meant "Big Water," a laconic understatement even for an Indian. Twenty-two miles long, twelve miles wide and one-third of a mile deep, Tahoe is the third largest alpine lake in the world (after the Peruvian-Bolivian Titicaca and Oregon's Crater Lake). Poured out over California, it would submerge the entire state in 14½ in. of water. Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade...
...pumped hands, sipped the peasants' bitter, beery chicha and traded quips with campesinos in their native Quechua. As the elections drew near, Barrientos resigned as a member of the ruling junta and mustered a mixed-breed coalition of leftist and rightist groups into a party he called the Bolivian Revolutionary Front (F.R.B...