Word: quechua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barrientos was also a man of vision who hoped to include in his own brand of forceful democracy the Indian campesinos whose Quechua dialect he spoke so well. "I have the idea that every citizen must be a participant in building his country," he once said. "In order to be a participant, he must know what the problems are and how they can be solved. In order to know, he must receive information and believe it. The destiny of telling the campesinos has fallen on me, a good friend of theirs." By plane and helicopter, Barrientos pursued his destiny, often...
Barrientos not only plops down godlike on Indian villages that have never seen a President; he is also one of the few blancos, or white Bolivians, fluent in the Quechua Indian language. He is robust enough to dance all night with pretty girls, hearty enough to eat as many as four lunches a day of peasant rabbit stew and peppers accompanied by home made corn liquor. "I'm eleven pounds heavier than when I became President," Barrientos told TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia last week. "The only way the campesinos have of showing affection is to feed you. The only...
...running the government, Barrientos was off piloting his rickety DC-3 to every corner of the country, visiting as many as twelve towns a day. Through swirls of confetti, he pumped hands, sipped the peasants' bitter, beery chicha and traded quips with campesinos in their native Quechua. As the elections drew near, Barrientos resigned as a member of the ruling junta and mustered a mixed-breed coalition of leftist and rightist groups into a party he called the Bolivian Revolutionary Front (F.R.B...
...peek at Lenin, whose tomb was banked in flowers and bedecked with signs reading "Glory to Communism." Others belted vodka in their freshly painted hotel rooms and watched the proceedings on television, or listened to highlights of the Congress broadcast in 54 languages, including Zulu, Nepalese and Quechua-a language spoken by Indians in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia...
...rest. At least twice a week while coPresident, he jumped behind the controls of his rickety DC-3 and went whistle-stopping to the remotest corners of his Andean nation, donning Indian hats and ponchos, beaming through storms of confetti and trading quips with campesinos in their native Quechua tongue. He ran his government with the same dash and flamboyance...