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...Bolivia. On Nov. 1, All Saints' Day, the beginning of seeding time, the young men come with their guitars and swing the prettiest cholas from the boughs of tall willows. After that there is a picnic and next day, the Day of the Dead, everyone lays flowers in the cemeteries for those who swing no more...
...national flower of Bolivia is the kantuta, bell-shaped and scarlet. The Incas said the flower first blossomed from the blood dropped by a Virgin of the Sun God, beloved by a prince and slain by the trick of a jealous witch. Spring came cold and dark to lofty Bolivia, but nobody recalled more beautiful kantutas. It was, Bolivians said, as if all the blood shed this year were reappearing as flowers...
That only made Bloc-Builder Peron chip harder. Following the practice made familiar in Uruguay and Brazil, wheat and cattle shipments to Bolivia were virtually cut off. In the last two months it was estimated that barely a fifth of normal imports crossed the frontier from Argentina. In La Paz the price of butter tripled. Bolivian officials, loth to antagonize their big neighbor further, kept quiet, but a La Paz housewife said: "When I saw Villarroel hanged, I never thought our beef had been hanged...
Peron's purposes were plain: to win the new regime to his treaty for customs and passport union, perhaps then to put Bolivia in almost the same relation to Argentina as Austria was to Hitler's Germany. Last week he was reported demanding tin and rubber from Bolivia to implement his new five-year plan (TIME...
Locusts came from the west, from the wild Chaco region of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. They swarmed into southern Brazil on a 60-mile front, blotting out the sun as they flew, making more noise than a squadron of diving planes. It took them four hours (at 9 m.p.h.) to fly over one village in Paranaá state. They blocked roads, stalled trains, invaded houses. They devastated eight towns, ate up an estimated 60,000 tons of wheat -more than half of Brazil's small but vital wheat crop...