Word: bolivians
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...Guevara was tracked down and murdered in the Bolivian mountains in 1967 by NSA airborne operatives, who monitored his radio signals...
...squeezed into a cabin with a family of former exiles--lost Greeks--and a Bolivian. I had the feeling I was watching the last, unnoticed stretch in the return of a handful of modern-day Odyssei. The man had left Greece with his wife at the age of 18, after fighting with the partisans in a civil war that crept out of the mountains to shake the country all over again after the Allied liberation of 1944. This man was one of many communists finally forced to flee, who thought they would die outlaws...
...There are simply too many, and they hurry through the same monotonous motions. The people who both gave and took hospitality were those who, like a lot of Greeks, enjoyed the feeling of peculiarity or singularity in others and themselves. These tended to be travelers without any plans. The Bolivian, for example, who spoke only Spanish and Rumanian but let go a slew of facial expressions and circular gestures that drew...
...Hotel Carrera simply to catch a glimpse of the Secretary before he emerged to drive off to the OAS meeting. In Santa Cruz, a huge crowd mobbed his car when he drove to place a floral wreath at the monument of Bolivia's national hero, Ignacio Warnes. Bolivian President Hugo Banzer, in fact, paid Kissinger the ultimate tribute: prevented by protocol from greeting the Secretary on his arrival in the country, Banzer nonetheless donned civilian clothes, drove to the airport, and watched incognito as his famous visitor passed by in a motorcade to town...
...same procession of uniforms and frock coats, of English top hats alternating with plumed Bolivian helmets, as one saw in second-rate theaters, where triumphal marches of thirty men passed and re-passed in front of the same drop curtain, running when they were behind it, so as to be in time to re-enter the stage shouting for the fifth time: "Victory! Victory! Long Live the Regime! Long Live Liberty...