Reply #6: Puno is a beautiful city on a magnifcent Lake Titicaca

[mitchtv]

One night in Puno we had trouble driving out due to barricades and bonfires. Order is a fragile commodity around those parts. It is quite a high altiude, probably about 1000 ft above sea level.It is also the port of entry by boat from Bolivia. Bolivia who has had as many preidents as years of independence,last time I checked(long ago). Bolivia is certainly no model for stability and a close ally of Chavez.when I was in Puno it was '72 , I think. Bolivia had 3 presidents at least, in 48 hours. one or two hundred truckloads of armed peasants stationed above La Paz at el Alti , and the government quickly became reasonable. Anyway It was the coup that brought Gen Torres to the top for a few years. Sorry you missed it Judi lynn