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Silver Spoon Socialists Flex Muscles In Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Bolivia, Corruption, Hugo Chavez, Socialist International, Venezuela, Dilma Rousseff, Argentina, Leon Trotsky, Brazil, Globalism, Odebrecht, World Social Forum, World Economic Forum, Luis Favre, Sean Penn, World News

The Communist Party of Brazil was given the political plum of running the ministry of sports by president Dilma as a reward for staying inside her Worker's Party coalition government during her dramatic move to the political center.

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Bus Plummets Into Ravine In Fatal Accident

AP | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Argentina, Bolivia, Bus Crash, Argentina Bus Crash, Argentina Bolivia, Bolivia Bus Crash, World News

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A bus ran off a road in northern Argentina and plunged into a ravine, killing 10 people and injuring about 40 others, offic...

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Series on Women Changing the World: Domitila Barrios, Bolivia

Elly Pradervand | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Women Changing the World, Bolivia, Creativity, Domitila Barrios, Let Me Speak, Activism, Rural Women, Wwsf, Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life, Bolivian Politics, Women News

As an introduction to our series on Women Changing the World, we find it only fitting to start by honoring the legacy of Bolivian grassroots leader Domitila Barrios de Chungara, who recently passed away at age 74.

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PHOTOS: The Surreal Landscapes Of Salar De Uyuni, Bolivia

Linda Xiao | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Bolivia Travel, International Destinations, Bolivia, Exposure, Slidewide, Salar De Uyuni, Bolivia Salt Flast, Destinations, Travel News

In these doppelganger skyscapes, we seemed to fly among dark brooding shapes formed by far-off mountains and their reflections, skim over the tops of cloud ranges and plow into textured heavens.

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Bolivia, Expropriation and Chutzpah

Daniel Wagner | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Foreign Relations, South America, Bolivia, Foreign Affairs, Latin America, Evo Morales, World News

President Morales has the chutzpah, and three Wall Street institutions have the temerity, to issue bonds for a government that has personified 21st century Latin American socialism and continues a time honored tradition of expropriating foreign-owned assets.

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Inside The Mines Of Potosi, Bolivia

Linda Xiao | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: South America, Bolivia Travel, Potosi, Spelunking, Mines, Bolivia, South America Travel, Slideexpand, Travel Blogs, Slidepollajax, Travel News

In order to survive, one must make certain sacrifices to appease Tío, the devil-like figure that the miners idolize.

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Coca-Leaf Chewing To Be Legalized?

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Bolivia Coca, Coca-Leave Chewing, Bolivia Eva Morales, Evo Morales Coca, Bolivia Coca Leaves, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Coca, World News

VIENNA -- Bolivian President Evo Morales urged a 53-nation U.N. narcotics control meeting Monday to accept his push for legalization of coca-leaf chew...

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WATCH: From Tim Burton To Bolivia's Wearable Paintings

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Roberto Mamani, Bolivia Wearable Paintings, Video, Bolivian Art, Bolivia, Performance Art, Fuerza Bruta, Tim Burton, Wearable Art, Arts News

In the BBC's arts roundup this month, we first experience Tim Burton's exhibition, featuring over 700 works by the bizarre and lovable filmmaker. You'...

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Plant Teacher: An Excellent Read

Joel D. Hirst | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Bolivia, Latin America, Fiction, Books News

Good fiction books are ones that entertain, while at the same time leave the reader with a better understanding of the truths they are trying to portr...

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Bolivia's Flying Men

Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Evo Morales Bolivia, Video, Bolivia Coca, Yungus Valley, Bolivia Flying Men, Evo Morales Coca, Coca Leaves, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Coca, Bolivia Yungus Valley, World News

"People say we spun spider webs together across the valley. But that's not true. We're the flying men of the Yungas. On our ropes we're like birds. We...

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DEATH TRAP: Stranglers Lure Victims On Buses

AP | PAOLA FLORES | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Bolivia Violence, Bolivia Buses, Bolivia Bus, Bolivia Fake Bus, Bolivia Robberies, Bolivia Robberies Buses, Bolivia, Bolivia Murders, World News

EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — The little buses looked like any others as they rattled down the dirt streets of El Alto, collecting people headed to work i...

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Police Whipped By Coca Growers In Bolivia

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Video, Police Whipped, Police Attacked, Bolivia, Wilfredo Chavez, Coca, War on Drugs, La Paz, Coca Growers, Cocaine, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian officials on Tuesday threatened to prosecute leaders of coca growers who used whips to drive away four unarmed member...

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Out of the Streets and Into the Classroom

Christine Horansky | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Global Citizenship, Bolivia, Cochabamba, Education, Youth, Millenium Development Goals, Children, United Nations, World Learning, Education News

The prospects of a nation lie in its youth. In the fight against poverty, educating every child is one of the best investments a country can make.

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PHOTOS: Hard To Enter Countries (And How to Get In)

BootsnAll | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Russia, Libya, India, Lebanon, Bootsnall, Vietnam, Travel, Bolivia, Iran, Syria, China, Cuba, International Destinations, Destinations, Travel Tips, Slidepollajax, Travel News

If you're organized and determined enough to get to these hard-to-reach places, you will be rewarded with some amazing adventures

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The Politics of Dinners With Exes

Philip N. Howard | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Bolivia, Alejandro Toledo, Arab Spring, Peru, Jorge Quiroga, Former Presidents, George W. Bush, Ndi, Tunisia, World News

Ex-President George W. Bush, Peru's ex-President Alejandro Toledo, and Bolivia's ex-President Jorge Quiroga are all important public figures who are dealing with managing their status as former heads of state.

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Bolivian President Hopes To Build Railway To Peru

AP | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Bolivia Exports, Bolivia Peru, Peru, Evo Morales Railway, Bolivia Economy, Bolivia Railroad, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Bolivia Peru Railway, World News

LIMA, Peru -- Bolivia's president said Monday that he hopes to build a new railway linking his country to Peru that would facilitate exports to Asia. ...

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Evo Quietly Consolidates Power

Joel D. Hirst | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Communism, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Bolivia Politics, Arrest, World News

As the Bolivians are finding out, the institutions of 21st century authoritarianism offer them no better protection for their fundamental, inalienable, irreversible and un-renounceable human rights than did those of the last century.

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Siblings Arrested In Suspected Exorcism Killing

AP | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Exorcism Killing, Bolivia Exorcism Killing, Bolivia Exorcism Suspects Arrested, Bolivia, Adelaida Marca, Carlos Uriona, Bolivia Exorcism, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — An evangelical pastor and his sister have been arrested by police in Bolivia after they purportedly killed a sibling during a ...

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Fiddling on Climate

Laura Carlsen | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Cancun, Durban Climate Talks, Climate Change, Bolivia, Global Warming Deniers, Durban Conference, Durban Climate Conference, Cancun Climate Summit, Global Warming, Green News

Of the hundreds of closed-door sessions, official meetings and informational seminars at the climate change talks in Durban this week, all that's come out so far is cacophony.

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U.S. "Diplomacy" Still Failing In Latin America

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Bolivia, Obama Administration, Ecuador, Colombia, United States, Venezuela, Latin America, Politics News

Yesterday the United States expelled the Ambassador from Ecuador, in retaliation for Wednesday's expulsion of the U.S Ambassador from Ecuador. This no...

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U.S. Drug Agents Still Unwelcome In Bolivia

AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Bolivia Normalization, Bolivia, Bolivia Vice President, Bolivia Drug Enforcement Administration, Alvaro Garcia, Bolivia-Drugs, Drug Enforcement Administration, US-Bolivia Relations, World News

BOGOTA, Colombia — Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday that U.S. drug agents are not welcome back in his country despite the newly annou...

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Water Privatization: Villainy or Necessity?

John Converse Townsend | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: India, Gary White, Matt Damon, Water, Watercredit, Privatization, Bolivia, Changemakers, Ashoka, Third Industrial Revolution, Clean-Water, Impact News

Until recently, the privatization of humanity's most valuable resource was a Third World problem. Now the idea and the economics behind it are spreading to more developed countries like China, Russia, Canada, and even the United States.

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Bolivia Cancels Jungle Highway Plans

AP | By CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Video, Morales, Bolivia Jungle, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Bolivia Jungle Highway, Evo Morales Libya, Evo Morales Amazon Highway, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- President Evo Morales said Friday that he was scrapping plans to build a highway through a nature reserve in Bolivia's jungle lowla...

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Voters Rebuke Evo Morales By Casting Invalid Ballots

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Evo Morales Invalid Ballot, Evo Morales Voting, Bolivia Elections, Evo Morales Elections, Evo Morales, Bolivia, President Evo Morales, Evo Morales Election Exit Polls, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Most Bolivians who voted in Sunday's election to choose the country's top judges cast invalid ballots in what would be a sting...

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Bolivians March In Support Of Evo Morales

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Video, Bolivia Demonstration, Morales March, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Evo Morales March, Evo Morales Demonstration, President Evo Morales, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Tens of thousands of Bolivians have converged on the center of the capital to show support for leftist President Evo Morales in his...

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