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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into Paraguay across the Pilcomayo River, the boundary between Paraguay and the Argentine. Well, as soon as we got into Paraguay we came across a lot of forts, all filled with Bolivians. And these Bolivians-soldiers they were-said that if we didn't turn back they'd shoot us. So, you see, as far back as 1913 Bolivia had just quietly annexed a good piece of Paraguay as far down as the twenty-fourth parallel...
...Well, we thought we'd better go round, so we came out again and went south through the Argentine to Asuncion and into Paraguay across the eastern boundary, the Paraguay River. When we got there we told them how there were a lot of Bolivians sitting in forts in the middle of Paraguay, and that vexed them a bit. It was the first they'd heard of it, I guess...
...Paraguay contains the best pasture land in the world. You could grow anything there-lemons, cotton, corn, oats, everything. We'd have done great things there if it hadn't been for the War. That put a stop to everything. The outfit I was working for sold out, but I kept 325,000 acres for myself. It may come in useful someday...
...Wilhelm II seemed to have much success in taming Dictator Castro. Also a series of British, French, and Dutch naval blockades of the Venezuelan coast, or parts of it, did not bring Dictator-President Cipriano Castro perceptibly to reason. He started out in 1900 by springing a successful coup d'etat, and grandiloquently announcing to the world that he proposed to unite Venezuela with Colombia and Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors; 2) seizing British and Dutch...
...disturbed and even terrified did Venezuelans become at the dangerous caprices of President Castro, that they welcomed with frenzied enthusiasm a coup d'etat by the then Vice President, General Juan Vicente Gomez. Ever since that day -Dec. 19, 1908-General Gomez has been perfecting his Dictatorship and directing what he calls "Venezuela's era of national rehabilitation." Though his methods have been harsh, they have seemed justified by the widespread Venezuelan prosperity directly attributable to President Gomez's driving, kinetic leadership. Dictator Castro had utterly scared off all foreign investors. But under Dictator Gomez investments exceeding...