Word: droughtlands
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Away from the coast, Venezuela is a varied land of goat-ridden droughtland, snowy peaks, Amazonian jungle and the lofty, remote eastern mesas where Sir Walter Raleigh looked for El Dorado. Bone-chilled peasants tend their flocks of goats on the slopes of a spur of the Andes; cowboys ride through the tough, chest-high grass of the llanos-Venezuela's central prairie-driving herds of bony cattle before them. In one of the few spots in Venezuela that are radically changed-a cooperative sugar farm on the estate of a Pérez Jiménez crony long...
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