Boliva The 'Tibet of South America', Bolivia is the highest of all South America's countries. But its landlocked position and mountain ranges also make it a country to find a flavour of what much of South America must once have been like. The region around La Paz is known as Little Bolivia where s...

1. Mobil's plastics business was worth more to Tenneco because it more closely fit their corporate strategy of product development and market expansion. Tenneco is very focused on global expansion and Mobil's plastics division provided them with products that lend themselves well ...

Columbia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Columbia in 1830. A fourty year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Columbian government escalated during the 1990s, under girded in part by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swath...

Antonio de Ulloa discovered platinum in South America in 1735 and by Wood in 1741. Platinum is a silver-white metal that holds even more value then gold. Its atomic number is 78 and its mass is 195.08. It is also one of the heaviest metals. It is a transition metal and its electron configuration ...