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Show Obstacles Help Latins Build Their Aviation ! Washington. Pevelopmeni ut com- j mercial aviation in Latin America is j being accelerated rather than relarded, ! says a report to the committee depart- J mem from Leighton W. Rogers, agent J assigned to investigate the si lijcct, by ! the very obstacles which it encounters. Great distances between cities, rugged intervening mountains and lack ! of railroad communication, he finds. ; are actually encouraging the new in ' dustry. due of the world's first com- ; mercial aviation services to prove ; profitable was that established several I years ago along the .Magdalena river j in Colombia Now, iu addition, regular passenger i and freight service is maintained be twven Buenos Aires. Argentina, and Montevideo. Uruguay. (n the west coast Chile operates an air-mail service serv-ice between Santiago and Valparaiso, and Bolivia has had a commercial system sys-tem in operation for two years, while iu Mexico a number of oil companies taantaiii their own lines and various projvets are under way in tlie Wes' Indies. Most of the airplanes used j are made in the United Slates or En I rone. |