WHEN i first ventured to come out to Bolivia, a few years ago now, a couple of my mates asked in all seriousness, "Wot youz gawin air for? Itz cowld izn't it?" (Ed - i didn’t think you had mates from Stevenage. you always tell me you "don't socialize with those kind of people.") Bolivia, it seems is lucky enough to share the first and last letters of its name with other countries which inspire memories of War, Railways, Triangles, Wombles and Bob Geldof; Bosnia, Burma, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Botswana are all close but not quite yet a puff of that ever illusive cigar. Bolivia is one of, if not THE most attacked and pillaged countries in the whole of South America. With wars fought and lost with every country around it, this poor little abandoned puppy
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