Word: cochabamba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disobeyed. Led by Trotskyite Boss Victor Villegas, 200 men stormed police guarding the embassy. The police fired tear-gas shells, then pistols. A dentist was killed by a stray bullet. Then calm crept back to La Paz, but new violence broke out the next day in out-country Cochabamba and Oruro. Police drove off the Oruro mobs, but Cochabamba's U.S.I.S. Library was gutted. Final toll: two dead, 38 policemen injured, $50,000 damage in La Paz, $20,000 in Cochabamba...
...COCHABAMBA Clemson...
...crop in the lower valleys. Black-haired José Rojas, now 43, and Moon are mutual admirers, and Rojas refuses even to comment on the bad old days when he was anti-U.S. "Instead of the vague promises of the Communists," explains Joaquin de Lemoine Quiroga, governor of Cochabamba, "Point Four gave help, seeds, fertilizer and tools. The campesino, as an independent landowner, can form his own opinion...
...reported last week. "Movies at five cents, sugar at a penny a pound-if Americans would like the fine, careless rapture of living in 1956 with such items on their budgets, all they have to do is to take the next plane to Bolivia," a U.S. woman wrote from Cochabamba. With the forces of exchange legalization, runaway inflation and currency liberation variously at work, dollar-earners in South America were finding many bargains-along with some sudden price rises...
...highway runs 311 spectacular miles from mountainous Cochabamba over a 12,000-ft. pass to Santa Cruz in the eastern plains (TIME, June 6, 1949). It ties together regions that are physical neighbors but commercial strangers; in La Paz it used to be cheaper to buy imported sugar than Santa Cruz sugar. Now the road also gives access to other food crops, cattle, mahogany and prospectively rich oil land. In addition, it provides the final link in a rail-and-highway route from Rio de Janeiro to the Pacific Coast. Construction of the road, hampered by red tape and revolutions...