Bolivian Americans
Overview
Bolivia, the only landlocked country in the Western Hemisphere, is home to almost eight million people. Twice as large as Texas, Bolivia is a multiethnic society. Of all th...
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Bolivia
Republic of Bolivia
República de Bolivia
CAPITAL: La Paz (administrative capital); Sucre (legal and judicial capital)
FLAG: The flag is a horizontal tricolor of red (top), yellow, and g...
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Bolivia
Prior to independence in 1825, Bolivia was part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of Lima, established to extract the rich mineral resources of the Andes. After the defeat of the Spanish, fighting am...
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Bolivia
POPULATION 8,445,134ROMAN CATHOLIC 79.3 percentPROTESTANT 10.1 percentNONRELIGIOUS 9.4 percentOTHER 1.2 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of Bolivia, located in South Ame...
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Area: 1,098,581 sq km (424,164 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 9,354,000Capitals:
La Paz
(administrative) and
Sucre
(judicial)Head of state and government:
Presidents
Eduardo Rodríguez
Velt...
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Demonstrators loyal to President Evo Morales continued their weeklong vigil in this central Bolivian city on Sunday, calling for the opposition-aligned state governor to resign for backing a moveme...
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Divided Bolivia took a tentative step toward reconciliation as President Evo Morales and autonomy-seeking opposition governors agreed to seek a compromise.But while the two sides agreed Tuesday to ...
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President Evo Morales' backers in an assembly rewriting Bolivia's constitution have proposed allowing the populist leader to seek re-election for an unlimited number of consecutive terms.Bolivian l...
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The head of Bolivia's state oil company has resigned following disagreements with the government of President Evo Morales over how to run the company.Juan Carlos Ortiz, 38, took the helm of Yacimie...
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National maps give them both a star, but for more than a century, the seat of Bolivia's government has been in high-altitude La Paz. Now Sucre, a provincial lowland city where the highest courts ar...
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Bolivian President Evo Morales reached a deal late Wednesday on how much Brazil will pay for Bolivian natural gas, apparently resolving an issue that has dee...
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The view into Brazil from this Bolivian border city is of an Amazon jungle paradise: an endless green horizon broken only by a patch of urban skyline reflected in a shimmering lagoon.But in the tra...
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The ritual sacrifice of a snow-white llama Friday symbolically marked President Evo Morales' nationalization of Bolivia's lone operating tin smelter.Swiss mining giant Glencore International AG own...
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The Bush administration has decided to waive penalties against the world's third-leading producer of coca, finding that Bolivia has done enough to fight the production and sale of the cocaine precu...
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Bolivian Americans
Bolivia
Bolivia
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