>But I did see something on the Wikipedia about trying to annex some land back from Chile, and its been said that if he fails at this he'll probably be over thrown:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Mesa>
>Is that likely?
Bolivia has tried for the last 100 years (since the war) to get the land that it lost, back... or at least an autonomous corridor to the sea. There really is nothing new here.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)