>>>>Actually, my parents brought me when I was 1 year old. My father was from the Netherlands, my mother German, and decided to move to Bolivia.
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>>>As one does! Ever been to the Old World?
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>>My grandmother took me for a few months, when I was 6 years old. I don't remember much of that, and after that, I haven't been back to Europe. Nor to any other continents, for that matter.
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>And it's a bit land-locked Bolivia, isn't it? Seems weird that we can visit the whole world with the click of a mouse here but some of us never leave. Was it Bolivia that decided to declare war, simultaneously on all fronts, with all its neighbours, a couple of centuries ago, and, of course, got "bladdered" by everyone?

Terry, I think you are thinking of Paraguay, which lost almost 2/3 of the population in the war against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay (War of the Triple Alliance 1864-1870) (the first google link I found was http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/tango/triple1864.htm)