Word: puno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad to bypass Lake Titicaca, where everything traveling between Peru's Pacific ports and La Paz must now be transshipped to and from a lake steamer. When the ceremonies were over, Paz Estenssoro and Odria signed a formal agreement to go ahead with the 115-mile Puno-Guaqui railroad. Said a Peruvian diplomat: "Peru and Bolivia look to me like Siamese brothers, joined by the Titicaca lake...
...Puno, on the Peruvian side of the lake, 2,000 garishly dressed Indians, many of them barefoot, were drinking and dancing in the biting cold. All around the town plaza shops did a roaring business selling chicha, cane alcohol or beer...