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Police Whipped By Coca Growers In Bolivia

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 02.07.2012 | World

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 01.17.2012 | Education

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 01.10.2012 | Travel

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 01.03.2012 | World

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 | World

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 12.21.2011 | World

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 12.20.2011 | World

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 | Green

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 | Politics

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 | World

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 | Impact

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 | World

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 | World

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 | World

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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Smiling Evo Morales Beams From The Back Of Students' Computers

AP | Posted 12.10.2011 | World

Read More: Bolivia Computers, Bolivia Laptops, Bolivia Education, Bolivia, Evo Morales, La Paz, Evo Morales Computers, Evo Morales Laptops, Roberto Aguilar, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia's government is giving school teachers free laptops with a prominent detail that is generating criticism for President...

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Evo's Indigenous Problem

Joel D. Hirst | Posted 12.05.2011 | World

Read More: Evo Morales, Bolivia, Tipnis, Oas, El Alto, David Choquehuanca, Bolivia Riots, Bolivian Government, Luis Ignacio Da Silva, Indigenous Bolivians, Bolivian Presidents, World News

One thing is clear: President Morales's peculiar version of mob authoritarianism appears to have turned against him.

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Interview: Mateo Gil discusses Blackthorn

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.05.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Bolivia, Sam Shepard, Spanish Cinema, Agora, Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes), Blackthorn, Marshall Fine Interview, Sundance Kid, Marshall Fine, Butch Cassidy, Westerns, Pedro Almodovar, Mateo Gil Interview, Mateo Gil, The Sea Inside, Spain, Entertainment News

To writer-director Mateo Gil, the western is the essence of the movies. Which is why his film Blackthorn is, in his words, "a very personal statement....

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Movie Review: Blackthorn

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.03.2011 | Entertainment

The cowboy - rugged, stoic and resourceful - will always be a cinematic archetype, though the western has all but disappeared as a commercially popula...

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Bolivian President's Popularity Plunges Dramatically

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ and FRANK BAJAK | Posted 11.28.2011 | World

Read More: Bolivia Evo Morales, Evo Morales Bolivia President, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Bolivia Amazon Highway, Bolivia Highway, Evo Morales Popularity, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Tens of thousands of Bolivians took to the streets in major cities Wednesday to heap reproach on President Evo Morales over a polic...

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Bolivian Deputy Interior Minister Resigns Over Amazon Highway March

AP | PAOLA FLORES | Posted 11.27.2011 | World

Read More: Bolivia, Bolivia President Evo Morales, Bolivia Amazon Highway, Bolivia Highway Protests, Bolivia Highway, Amazon Highway, Bolivia Deputy Interior Minister Resigns, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia's interior minister and his deputy resigned Tuesday after mounting recriminations over a violent police crackdown on m...

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PHOTOS: Airplane's Hard Landing Nearly Tears Off Engines

Posted 11.27.2011 | Travel

Read More: Slideshow, Video, dc9, Global Pulse, Bolivia, dc95, Hard Landing, Airline Crash, Aeropostal, Dc-9 Hard Landing, Dc 9 Hard Landing, Aeropostal Dc-9, Travel News

An Aeropostal DC-9 with 125 passengers and five crew made an emergency landing in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela after a partial rupture of its two engines. ...

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Bolivian Defense Minister Quits Over Highway Through Amazon

AP | JUAN KARITA | Posted 11.26.2011 | World

Read More: Celicia Chacon, Bolivia Evo Morales, Bolivia Celicia Chacon, Bolivia, Bolivia Amazon Highway, Bolivian Defense Minister Resigns, Bolivia Highway, Highway Through Amazon, Celicia Chacon Resigns, World News

RURRENABAQUE, Bolivia — Bolivia's president late Monday suspended a planned Amazon highway that has sparked clashes between police and Indians w...

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Indigenous and Presidents Clash in Ecuador and Bolivia

Christopher Sabatini | Posted 11.02.2011 | World

Read More: Bolivia, President Morales, President Correa, Tipnis, World News

In both Ecuador and Bolivia, the rhetoric of political inclusion is crashing into the politics of identity and collective rights.

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Saving Endangered Languages

Fox News Latino | Posted 10.25.2011 | Latino Voices

Read More: Documenting Endangered Languages, Del, Language, Education, Peru, Spanish Language, Andean, Quechua, Bolivia, Neh, National Endowment for the Humanities, Cultura, Latino Voices News

Conducting field research in southern Bolivia, linguist Susan Kalt hikes roughly two hours to reach the communities where she studies Quechua. ...

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Strong Earthquake Shakes Chile Near Bolivia Border

Posted 08.20.2011 | World

Read More: Chile, Bolivia Earthquake, Calama Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Bolivia, Antofagasta Earthquake, Chile Earthquake, World News

A strong earthquake struck the Antofagasta region of Chile, near the Bolivia border, this afternoon. The USGS reports the quake had a magnitude of ...

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