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...Bolivia analyst Erasto Almedia of the political risk consulting firm Eurasia Group says automakers shouldn't panic. Morales may talk a big nationalist game, Almeida argues, but he always ends up accepting foreign investment and technological support that could give the car companies a foot in the lithium-production door. "The conditions exist for foreign investment and involvement in the lithium sector in Bolivia," Almeida contends, especially if Bolivia wants to expand beyond the initial pilot plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Lithium Car Batteries, Bolivia Is in the Driver's Seat | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...rewards of the switch to the middle class are enticing. In San Cristóbal de las Casas, Erasto Urbina, once a barefoot peon on a southern coffee plantation, now runs a store that amply provides for his family of 8. Juan Carrasco, bellhop and car-parker at the capital's Continental Hilton, proudly drives his own green 1947 Plymouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Paycheck Revolution | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...world's word record is Erasto Garcia's; see TIME'S Miscellany, Nov. 3 wherein is stated: "At Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a post card, claimed a world's record." Dr. John J. Taylor, Streator, 111. (this cover- to-cover reader's Grandaddy) in 1893, before 30 prominent Streatorites, wrote on a postcard 14,564 words. The subject: i Kings, 13th Chapter containing 1,142 words. This written twelve times with 860 additional words on one side of a regulation U. S. postcard with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a postcard, claimed a world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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