Word: bolivia
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Bodet was cheered from the time he ended until he had walked three-quarters of the way around the room to his seat between Bolivia and Haiti. He had said what practically every Latin delegate had on his mind. While the Rio Conference's top subject was joint defense of the hemisphere, the Latin republics, harassed by inflation and meager dollar reserves, were much more eager to talk about economics...
Founding Father. The workers in Mexico, the speaker in Central Park, and many another who marked the day, remembered that Bolívar was the liberator of four countries: his native Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, an area ten times the size of mother Spain; that he founded a fifth, Bolivia, once known as Upper Peru. They forgot his fatal quarrels with associates...
...hopes for the 1826 Pan American Congress, like many of his dreams, came to little in his lifetime. No envoys appeared from Argentina, Brazil, Chile or Bolivia; of two U.S. representatives, one died before he got to Panama, the other arrived too late. But a pattern was set for future meetings of American republics. Bolívar had other disappointments. Venezuela joined Ecuador and Colombia in withdrawing from the federated Great Colombia he had built. His famous general, Antonio José Sucre, was assassinated. He wrote in despair: "Those who worked for South American freedom have plowed...
...toughest environments on earth is the high, thin-aired Andes. Lowland visitors puff & pant after trying to walk a few blocks in Oroya, Peru (12,000 feet) or La Paz, Bolivia (12,400 feet). Some get soroche (mountain sickness) so badly that they lose consciousness. Many lowlanders never get adjusted, and have to move back "down the hill...
...Jauja, the conquerors themselves might have failed to increase and multiply. It was 53 years before the 20,000 Spaniards in Potosi, Bolivia (14,000 feet) produced a single child which lived more than a fortnight. The high Andes had no self-perpetuating white population until Spaniards born at intermediate altitudes moved up the slopes. Americans living at high mining camps today send their wives down to sea level as soon as they become pregnant...