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Breakthrough in Bolivia as bill for new elections sails through Congress
Both chambers of Bolivia’s Congress unanimously passed legislation on Saturday to annul the contested Oct. 20 elections and pave the way for a new vote without former President Evo Morales, a major breakthrough in the country’s political crisis.
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Bolivian senator assumes interim presidency
Jeanine Áñez is backed by the Constitutional Court, but accused of a coup by ex-leader Morales.
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Bolivian president Morales resigns after protests
Demonstrators, who accused him of election fraud, chant "yes we could" as they celebrate.
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Bolivia's Morales resigns after protests over disputed October election
Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Sunday he would resign after the military...
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All eyes are on the Amazon fires in Brazil, but Bolivia is burning too
All eyes are on Brazil, as the fires in the Amazon continue to burn. But Bolivia is on fire too — and one activist tells us it has left 1.5 million hectares in tatters, 500 animal species in trouble, and firefighters stretched for resources.
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The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia
For a while, the residents of Manitoba Colony thought demons were raping the town's women. There was no other way of explaining how a woman could wake up with blood and semen stains smeared across her sheets and no memory of the previous night.
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Bolivian Govt Confirms Plans for Universal Healthcare in 2019
The new system will guarantee the right to health of all Bolivians. Bolivian President Evo Morales said Monday that the country will have a new system of free medical care “for the people” by 2019. The announcement was made after Morales met with the National Coordination for the Change, or Conalcam. “We are going to implement from next year the universal and free health insurance with the economic resources of the National Treasure, not the money of the workers, just to make it clear," said the president.
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Morales, indigenous icon, loses support among Bolivia’s native people
CHARAGUA, Bolivia, (Reuters) - In 12 years as president of South America’s poorest country, Evo Morales has accomplished many of the goals he set forth when he became the first indigenous person to le
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The Logic of Power
Evo Morales’s new allies are political alliances, and they lack the revolutionary fervor of his old ones. By Jessica Camille Aguirre.
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The lithium market and a new perspective of development
Since the Spanish colonial era, Bolivia has been an extractive enclave for the global mining sector. Bolivia is rich in natural resources, but it has had a paradoxical history of unequal economic growth and social paralysis, where its large share of indigenous population has remained impoverished. However, the same region where the Spanish Crown found a source of immense wealth, contains probably the largest reserves of lithium, a precious metal for today’s production of batteries.
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Pollution levels in Bolivia plummet on nationwide car-free day
Air pollution levels have plunged in cities across Bolivia as the country marked a nationwide car-free day in which all non-emergency vehicles were banned from city streets. As Bolivia’s middle-class population has increased over the past 10 years so has the number of cars clogging city streets. The car-free event started 18 years ago in Cochabamba, one of Latin America’s five most polluted cities, and has gradually taken root across the country.
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Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder
Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? By Monte Reel.
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Woman killed by ants after mob justice
A WOMAN died after being mistaken for a car thief and tied to a tree infested with poisonous ants. The Sun reports that the 52-year-old was rescued alive by police but died in hospital from breathing problems caused by severe throat swelling after her windpipe was bitten by the insects. The victim had gone to help her son who had been bound to the tree by angry vigilantes who accused them of trying to steal a car.
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The Vibrant Colors and Andean Motifs of a Bolivian Architect’s Buildings
Since 2005, an architect in El Alto, Bolivia has erected over 60 multi-story structures painted in bright colors and packed with bold geometric forms.
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Inside Bolivia’s Skull Festival, Where the Dead Get Diamonds and Sunglasses
“Here death isn’t so final.” By Paul Koudounaris.
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Melting glaciers in Bolivia could cause catastrophic floods
Bolivia, which holds 20 percent of the world's tropical glaciers has seen its glaciers shrunk by 43% since the mid-1980s. The melting has left behind at least 25 unstable glacial lakes capable of causing sudden and catastrophic outburst floods.
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Bolivia opens 'anti-imperialist' school to counter US
Bolivian President Evo Morales opens a new military defence academy, which he says will offer courses to counter the influence of the US in the developing world.
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Bolivia Offended By Bill Gates' Chicken Donation
Bolivia’s government said it is offended by Bill Gates’ initiative to donate 100,000 chickens to help impoverished nations, including Bolivia, worldwide.
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Lucha Libre, Bolivian style
Bolivia’s indigenous women fight for recognition. By Alexia Underwood.
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Bolivia's 2nd-largest lake dries up
What happens when a lake dries up entirely? In the case of the Lake Poopo in Bolivia, the Andean nation's formerly second largest after the famed Titicaca, the answer is nothing short of devastation. 'There should be some rain. But that's not happening and so there's nothing.' The government has declared the area a "disaster zone," but many say not enough has been done to make the area sustainable again.
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