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...culminated 125 years ago with the Treaty of Ancón. In the country’s capital, constitutions have been passed and repealed, many regimes have risen and fallen; and yet, defying all rationality, the Bolivian Naval Force lives on. Arguably the poorest country of Latin America, and torn apart by racial tensions and political instability, Bolivia still maintains a force of over 5,000 sailors and 173 vessels, whose most important activity is the commemoration of ‘Sea Day’ at the centric Abaroa square in La Paz every March...
...made airplane engines for the North in the Vietnam War. To raise consciences, and collective guilt, the factory brandished a photo of a young pilot who had been killed in a crash of a plane assembled there. The film interweaves the political overview - of a city institution being torn down to be replaced by commercial and residential buildings - with personal anecdotes that are poignant and charming. One woman recalls being at her parent's home with seven siblings, saying, "It was like an elephant living in the stomach of a sparrow...
...nickname. "They told me, 'Rice is a must, so it's worth standing in the rain for three or four hours to get some.' They didn't even have a change of clothes." Fighting back her tears, Chin Chin gave out rice and listened to stories of families torn apart and villages destroyed. "It was piteous," she says. "I really sympathized with them. We didn't see any aid from government or foreign groups...
...take advantage of the $1 trillion that Russia says it will spend on infrastructure by 2020. And while Turkey refused to permit U.S. troops to invade neighboring Iraq from its territory in 2003, Turkish construction and retail companies have since invested up to $10 billion in the war-torn country...
...Ward cuts an unimposing figure in his torn jeans, soil-smeared shirt, and high wellie farming boots as he crosses the strawberry patch to greet us. Jim and brother Bob, both self-described “tree huggers,” have quietly developed Wards Berry Farm into a 150-acre experiment in sustainable agriculture since their father bought the land just outside Boston in 1981. Now their farm could become the newest supplier to Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) as Harvard seeks out green food sources...