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Bolivia: three dead in miners’ protests
Three were killed as thousands of independent miners blocked highways across Bolivia to protest a pending law that would impose restrictions on their cooperatives.
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Chile-Peru border dispute: back on
Days after The Hague issued a ruling on their maritime border dispute, Peru and Chile are bitterly at odds over a patch of desert on their land boundary.
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Bolivia: pro-MAS faction takes CONAMAQ office
The police-besieged offices of the divided Aymara indigenous organization CONAMAQ in La Paz were turned over to leaders of the faction aligned with Bolivia's ruling party.
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Andean protesters resist death-marred Dakar Rally
With three dead in accidents, the Dakar Rally Raid cross-country motor-race is being blocked by campesinos in Argentina, with comrades in Bolivia and Chile at the ready.
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Bolivia: Aymara resist car-culture spectacle
Bolivia is mobilizing police to the route of the upcoming Dakar Rally Raid cross-country motor-race following a pledge by Aymara protesters to blockade it with their bodies.
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Peru claims new blow against Sendero Luminoso, assails Bolivia
Peru announced the capture of a top Sendero commander—and called upon neighboring Bolivia to stop stigmatizing it as a source of "narco-terrorism."
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Bolivia: Aymara dissidents block highway
Followers of Bolivian Aymara organization CONAMAQ blocked the highway between La Paz and Oruro after being evicted from their office in La Paz by riot police.
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Peru: deadly clash as narco-flight intercepted
Agents of Peru’s National Police force intercepted a small plane loaded with 300 kilos of cocaine paste in Oxapampa province, mortally wounding the pilot, a Bolivian national.
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Bolivia: activists disrupt Human Rights Day confab
A group of Bolivian activists disrupted the official proceedings for International Human Rights Day in La Paz, accusing the government of repression against indigenous struggles.
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Bolivia: repression against dictatorship survivors
Bolivia’s elite anti-riot force used tear-gas against survivors of the country’s military dictatorship who protested in La Paz to demand indemnification for torture they suffered.
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Sendero Luminoso in Bolivia?
Peru’s jungle border with Bolivia is militarized after Bolivian authorities said a coca-eradication was team was ambushed by a Sendero Luminoso cell in the Yungas region.
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Bolivia ready for nuclear power: Evo Morales
At a “Hydrocarbon Sovereignty” conference in Tarija, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales said his country has achieved the conditions to obtain nuclear power for “pacific ends.”