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To: Tax-chick

The article on Bolivia is of interest to me as my father had been “recruited” (Choice of volunteering or be drafted) and sent there to build airfields. At the point of this coup my mother, 2 older brothers (boy scouts then) and sister (baby) were there with him. Dad would never talk about Bolivia except for family things but my brothers had a few tales to tell. Like their house was in site of the German embassy and that he would be gone for weeks at a time and bring back stuff from the Indians of the jungle. One day Dad told them to get up early and watch the sky. The next morning a silver plane (oldest brother claimed it was a p-51(he would have known as he saw lots of them fighting in Korea)) came from the west and strafed the airfield. Not sure if that was La Paz or not but they always talked about Cochabamba.

From the Argentina story I see that they were fascists then and still are today.


9 posted on 02/16/2014 10:22:02 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

Very interesting! Our State Department, typically, seems to have very little idea what’s actually going on in Bolivia. Maybe additional news will appear in the next week.


10 posted on 02/16/2014 11:45:45 AM PST by Tax-chick (The future is not going to take us seriously.)
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