Sir Winston Churchill ascribed this pejorative term to a near neighbor, and it was not at all well-received. But what am I to say about Bolivia’s eleven million fifty thousand inhabitants (I won’t ask you to count ‘em; I rely on the World Bank’s 2017 figure), not one of whom has ventured to read this my blog?

I can well understand that no citizen of Cuba, Niger, Chad, Senegal or Mongolia (Inner or Outer) has evinced the slightest interest either in myself or the United States Tax Court. Neither I nor the Court has any impact, however remote, on their nation or themselves.

Guiana, French to the core, likewise holds aloof.

But Bolivia? It’s the only independent nation on the continent that ignores me.