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Explainer-Who is Luis Fernando Camacho, the opposition leader arrested in Bolivia?

Prominent Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho was arrested on Wednesday, exacerbating tensions between the government in La Paz and opposition centered around the affluent farming hub of Santa Cruz.

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Bolivian police detain country's main opposition leader

Police in Bolivia have detained the country’s main opposition leader for unspecified charges

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Bolivian police detain prominent opposition leader as tensions flare

Bolivian police on Wednesday detained prominent opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho on charges of "terrorism", significantly escalating tensions between the national government and Camacho's base in the Santa Cruz region.

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New find details deadly chapter in Butch and Sundance’s escape to South America

Killing of officer in Chilean town of Antofagasta set in motion events that led to pair’s death in shootout with Bolivian soldiers

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Peru protests strand sick, hungry tourists in remote town

Protests triggered by Peru's developing political crisis have stranded dozens of tourists, including children, in a remote mountain town for over 48 hours as locals refuse passage to Bolivia, a member of the group told Reuters.

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Three arrested over Bolivian people smuggling using common travel area

The Home Office believes migrants were charged thousands of pounds to be flown from Bolivia to the UK through Ireland.

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Elderly villagers become film stars to put Bolivia’s climate plight in focus

Don José and Doña Luisa, both in their 70s, are the true-life love story at the heart of Utama, which shows how drought is depopulating the highlands

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In Bolivia, literacy training makes a profound difference

Bolivia is one of the poorest nations in South America, and nearly a fourth of its citizens could not read nor write a generation ago

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World court: scant disagreement in Chile, Bolivia water row

The International Court of Justice says it had little to rule on in a long-running dispute over the Silala River which flows from Bolivia to Chile as the Latin American neighbors have mostly resolved their differences

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World court: Bolivia, Chile close together in river dispute

The United Nations’ highest court found little to rule on in a long-running dispute over a small river which flows from Bolivia to Chile as the Latin American neighbors had mostly resolved their conflict during the 6-year proceedings

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World Court urges Chile and Bolivia to cooperate on Silala river

Judges at the World Court ruled on Thursday that Chile and land-locked Bolivia now agreed on previous points of dispute over access to the waters of the Silala river and that they would not need to make a decision on Chile's claims before the court.

Reuters

Bolivia's key farming hub ends strike as lawmakers back census

A 36-day general strike in Bolivia's key farming region of Santa Cruz came to an end on Saturday, as lawmakers approved a guarantee to hold a population census in 2024, which will likely hand the region more tax revenues and seats in Congress.

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In South America's Andes, farmers pray for rain to end drought

High in the mountains of the Bolivian Andes, farmer Alberto Quispe has one thing on his mind: rain.

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Is Latin America Stuck?

The region could face a new lost decade.

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Unchecked deforestation destroying evidence of lost Amazon civilisation

Cutting down trees in Bolivia’s Beni region not only damages the environment, it obliterates ancient remains: ‘That part of the archaeological archive is lost’

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Power struggle divides Bolivia as soy-rich Santa Cruz demands more clout

Tropical, sunny and relatively wealthy, Bolivia's farming region of Santa Cruz has long butted heads with the arid highland political capital La Paz. Now, buttressed by rising soy and beef exports, it is in a power struggle for greater political and financial clout.

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Coca chewing gets a chic makeover

SANTIAGO: With flavours ranging from bubble gum to passion fruit and TikTok stars promoting it, chewing coca has become the latest chic trend in Bolivia.

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Coca chewing gets chic makeover with bubblegum flavor and TikTok fans

With flavors ranging from bubble gum to passion fruit and TikTok stars promoting it, chewing coca has become the latest chic trend in Bolivia.

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Bolivia calls census in 2024 as protests reach three-week mark

Bolivia will hold its first census in more than a decade in 2024, President Luis Arce said in a midnight speech on Saturday, scheduling it a year later than demanded by the opposition, as protests crippling part of the nation hit the three-week mark.

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Bolivia’s ‘Water People’ Face Uncertain Future With Loss Of Major Lifeline

Bolivia's Lake Poopo was once a fountain of life for local inhabitants, but it is now a desert with abandoned boats.

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The left now rules most of Latin America. Will it be able to live up to its promises?

MEXICO CITY — Over the last four years, leftist candidates have won presidential elections in one Latin American country after the other: Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Colombia.

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Bolivian civic group threatens national strike as census protests escalate

A leading civic group in Bolivia threatened to hold a national strike to pressure the government to carry out a census next year, a potential escalation of protests that have already brought the farm hub of Santa Cruz to a near standstill.

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Bolivia to temporarily suspend exports of food products amid protests

Bolivia's government said on Wednesday it will temporarily suspend exports of food products including soy and beef amid protests in the key farming region of Santa Cruz.

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Bolivian strike over census delay paralyzes agriculture export hub

Thousands of people in Bolivia launched an indefinite strike on Saturday in the lowland city of Santa Cruz, a major agriculture export hub, to protest the postponement of a population and housing census which delays access to more economic resources.

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Bolivian gold miners push into national park despite country’s green rhetoric

Mining co-ops – with oversize influence in the government – are moving into the Amazon’s Madidi national park

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