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‘70 dead in Bolivia carnival festivities’
The Bolivian government says 70 people died in four days of carnival festivities in the country.
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Bolivian villagers use venomous ants to torture alleged thieves
Bolivian authorities say Amazon villagers nearly killed two men with venomous ants, tying them to a tree swarming with the insects for allegedly stealing three motorbikes. Dr Roberto Paz told reporters in Cochabamba on Monday that one of the men remained in intensive care while the other had required dialysis for kidney failure.
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World Bank wants water privatized, despite risks
Humans can survive weeks without food, but only days without water — in some conditions, only hours. It may sound clichéd, but it’s no hyperbole: Water is life. So what happens when private companies control the spigot? Evidence from water privatization projects around the world paints a pretty clear picture — public health is at stake.
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Bolivia raises minimum wage by 20%
Bolivia will raise the minimum wage by 20%, President Evo Morales announced on Monday. Following talks with leaders from Bolivia's main trade union federation, President Morales also said that the basic salary would go up by 10%. The increase is well above inflation, which was 6.5% in 2013.
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Bolivia's child labour law shames us all
Aidan McQuade: Children aged just 10 are now permitted to work – why do we keep denying children their right to a childhood?
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Bolivia votes in presidential election; easy win seen for Morales
Bolivians vote Sunday in an election that is almost guaranteed to hand a third consecutive term to President Evo Morales, a former coca farmer whose brand of "indigenous socialism" has expanded the role of the state in a booming economy.
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Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre Prison
In Bolivia, breaking out of prison is hard. Sneaking in is pretty easy, especially if it’s San Pedro Prison, the most bizarre correctional facility in the world.
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Yunkas Road
One of the world's deadliest biker roads in La Paz,Bolivia
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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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Lucha Libre, Bolivian style
Bolivia’s indigenous women fight for recognition. By Alexia Underwood.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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