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...they are ever going to do away with the need for foreign capital, they will have to cooperate more fully with one another. No country knows this better than landlocked, mineral-rich, dollar-starved Bolivia. Last spring, Peru and Bolivia started planning a new 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...
Bolivia is packed with such stark contrasts. It is a country of majestic mountain scenery and miserable human squalor, of tremendous natural resources and examples of their wretched neglect and abuse. To the west, condors soar over abandoned Spanish silver mines near icy, blue Titicaca, highest navigable lake in the world; in the remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle...
...Last May and June I fished Titicaca and several of the rivers that flow into it. The lake proper is not too good for trout, but the rivers are out of this world for a trout fisherman. A morning's catch would run ten or twelve rainbow over 25 in. up to 32 in., smaller ones too numerous to count. Would advise the use of casting rod, not fly rod, spoons and 20-lb. nylon lines. There is no fishing on this continent to compare with...
Until recently, only Andean Indians fished in Titicaca's icy waters, supplementing their meager diet by scooping up the lake's teeming, sardine-sized boga with small hand nets. Then Lieut. Colonel Howard O. Moores Jr., of the U.S. Air Force mission in La Paz, stopped by Titicaca during an Andean fishing trip. He unpacked his gear, assembled his rod and cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak...
When fellow members of the La Paz Hunting & Fishing Club heard of Moores's catch, they remembered that Titicaca had been seeded with rainbow back in 1935, and that various tributary streams had been stocked off & on since then by the government. So far only 50 anglers have tried their luck in the lake since Moores's discovery. But they have been pulling out whoppers right & left...