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It started with a phone call from a Bolivian schoolteacher in Tomave, a small town in the Bolivian state of Potosí. Her school, Unidad Educativa Estados Unidos de Norte America (Elementary School of the United States of America), is named for the U.S., yet her schoolchildren had never met real-life Americans. Zunilda Callapa Rodriguez first attempted to reach the Bolivian embassy in her request to introduce her students to U.S. citizens, but without an American embassy currently in Bolivia, this goal isn’t so easily met.

For the first time the world land speed records for wheeldriven cars and motorcycles could be broken at the same venue and in the same event. Thanks to an important collaborative initiative between the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) and the Federation de Motocyclisme (FIM), who recently banded together in the fight against online abuse, this closer alliance could generate a unique slice of history as drivers and riders gather on Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni this week for the Top1 Oil Bolivia Speed Trials.