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Bolivia
Bolivia , officially Republic of Bolivia, republic (2005 est. pop. 8,858,000), 424,162 sq mi (1,098,581 sq km), W South America. One of the two inland countries of South America, Bolivia is shut in from the Pacific in the W by Chile and Peru; in the E and N it borders on Brazil, in the SE on... Read more |
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Ismael Montes
Ismael Montes Bolivian statesman, lawyer, and military officer Ismael Montes (1861–1933) served two terms as President of Bolivia (1904–09 and 1913–17). A member of the country's Liberal Party, Montes ran an administration of political and social reform. He was instrumental... Read more |
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Madre de Dios
Madre de Dios , river, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, rising in the Andes of SE Peru and flowing NE through NW Bolivia to the Beni River. It is a major artery of NW Bolivia, but frequent rapids make its lower course only partly navigable. It drains a rubber-producing region.... Read more |
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Bermejo
Bermejo, Argentina‐Bolivia A river rising in Bolivia which joins the Paraguay River. The silt that it carries down stream gives it its name ‘reddish (colour)’ from the Spanish bermejo. There is also a town with this name in Argentina, but it is over 600 miles (965 km)... Read more |
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Bolivar
Bolívar, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, USA, Venezuela A department in Colombia, a province in Ecuador, a state and mountain in Venezuela, towns in the other countries; and a mountain in Oregon, USA. All are named after Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), the national hero of... Read more |
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Oruro
Oruro , city (1992 pop. 183,422), capital of Oruro dept., W Bolivia. It is Bolivia's railroad center. Oruro's economy is based on exploitation of the region's tin, tungsten, and copper. Because of the altitude (12,146 ft/3,702 m), agriculture is almost nonexistent. Oruro was founded in 1595 to... Read more |
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Hernan Siles Zuazo
Hernán Siles Zuazo Hernán Siles Zuazo (1914-1996) served as president of Bolivia for four years in the 1950s and... Read more |
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Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie 1913-91, Nazi war criminal known as the "Butcher of Lyons." As Gestapo chief in Lyons, France (1942-44), he was responsible for the deaths of French Resistance members and thousands of Jews. After the war he secretly served as a U.S. army agent in Germany. In 1951 he fled Europe... Read more |
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cassiterite
cassiterite , heavy, brown-to-black mineral, tin oxide, SnO 2 , crystallizing in the tetragonal system. It is found as short prismatic crystals and as irregular masses, usually in veins and replacement deposits associated with granites. Since it is hard, heavy, and resistant to weathering, it often... Read more |
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Sucre
Sucre city (1992 pop. 131,769), S central Bolivia, constitutional capital of Bolivia and capital of Chuquisaca dept. Since 1898, La Paz has been the administrative capital of Bolivia and the seat of the legislative and executive branches of government; Sucre is the seat of the judiciary. The city... Read more |
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Bolivia
Bolivia Country statisticsarea:1,098,580sq...centavosLandlocked republic in w central South America. Bolivia can be divided into two regions. The w...Andes Mountains. The w cordillera forms Bolivia's border with Chile. The e range runs... |
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South America
...Brazil and Argentina (the two largest), Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana...America is Lake Titicaca, on the Peru-Bolivia border, covering 8290sq km (3200sq mi). Lengthy...1928–30, 1932–35) between Bolivia and Paraguay. South American republics... |
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Gran Chaco
...stretching across the borders of Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Arid and largely unpopulated...discovery of oil in the Chaco Borea, and Bolivia's subsequent need for a route to the sea...the Chaco War (1932–35) between Bolivia and Paraguay. The war killed more than... |
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Sucre, Antonio José de
...revolutionary leader, first president of Bolivia (1826–28). De Sucre joined the fight...the liberation of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, winning the final, decisive Battle...Bolívar's support, he became president of Bolivia. Native opposition forced his resignation... |
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Sucre
Sucre City in s central Bolivia and the legal capital of Bolivia, the seat of government being La Paz. Known successively...after the revolutionary leader and first president of Bolivia, Antonio José de Sucre. It is a commercial and distribution... |
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Paraguay
...part of the Gran Chaco, a flat grassy plain that extends into Bolivia and Argentina. The s is subtropical. Rainfall is heaviest...resulted in great loss of territory. Border disputes with Bolivia led to the Chaco War (1932–35) in which Paraguay regained... |
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Aymara
...tribe of Native South Americans who live in the highlands of Bolivia and Peru. by 1500 they had been brought into the Inca Empire...The Ayamara language is spoken by c.1 million people in Bolivia and 3 million people in Peru. |
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Chile
...Andes mountains form Chile's e borders with Argentina and Bolivia. Ojos del Salado, at 6863m (22,516ft), is the second-highest...1879–84) Chile gained mineral-rich areas from Peru and Bolivia. In the late 19th century, Chile's economy rapidly industrialized... |
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Andes of South America
...high. Overall, the average elevation and width of the Andes decreases more or less symmetrically north and south from central Bolivia.Plate-tectonic settingThe Andes are a wide zone of convergent continental deformation between the South American plate and... |
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Barbie, Klaus
...fighters and Jews. Barbie sent thousands of people to Auschwitz. After the war, he worked for US counter-intelligence before escaping to Bolivia in 1951. He was captured in 1987, brought to Lyon, and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
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Bolivia
Bolivia During the Second Republic (1884–1952...of landless labourers. In three wars, Bolivia lost more than half of its territory...established, but Paz Estenssoro returned to Bolivia following his election victory in 1952... |
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Sucre
Sucre, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela 1. The judicial capital of Bolivia, a department and towns in Colombia, and a state in...leader in the wars of independence against Spain in Bolivia and Colombia, and the liberator of Ecuador; he was... |
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Chaco War
Chaco War (1932–5) A war between Bolivia and Paraguay about the disputed Gran...might be harbouring large oil reserves, Bolivia constructed a strategic fort in an area...gained most of the disputed territory while Bolivia gained access to the River Paraguay and... |
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Sucre, Antonio José de
...revolutionary and statesman, President of Bolivia (1826–28). Sucre served as Simón...Ecuador (1822), Peru (1824), and Bolivia (1825) from the Spanish. The first President of Bolivia, Sucre resigned following a Peruvian invasion... |
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Paz Estenssoro, Victor
...came to power, he became President of Bolivia (1952–56). During this time the tinmines...until 1971. Military government ended in Bolivia in 1982 and in 1985 he was re-elected...and consequential economic problems for Bolivia, his government survived until 1989... |
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Potosí
Potosí, Bolivia, Mexico, Nicaragua Bolivia: a department and a city named after Potosí Mountain, whose name is said to come from the Quechua potojchi ‘to explode’, a reference to the reverberations from within the mountain. Cities and a... |
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Bolívar
Bolívar, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, USA, Venezuela A department in Colombia...are named after Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), the national hero of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela who led the revolutions against... |
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Chile
...Pacific to the high Andes, along which run the boundaries with Bolivia and Argentina. In the north is the arid Atacama Desert, while...a railway system developing from 1851. Following war with BOLIVIA and PERU (1879–83), rich natural nitrate deposits were... |
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La Paz
La Paz, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Philippines, Uruguay, USA 1. Bolivia: founded in 1548 by the Spanish conquistador, Alonso de Mendoza, as Nuestra Señora de la Paz ‘Our Lady of the Peace’ on the site of an... |
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Paraguay
...landlocked country in south-central South America, bordered by Bolivia and Brazil on the north and Argentina on the south.Physical...improvements. In the CHACO WAR (1932–35), Paraguay won from Bolivia the long-contested territory believed to have oil reserves... |
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Bolivia.(Brief Article)
Bolivia has undergone dramatic change in the last...economy is among the most open in the world. Bolivia was one of the first countries that showed...becoming a natural gas hub of Latin America. Bolivia's fight against serious problems... |
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BOLIVIA: GOVERNMENT SAYS NATIONALIZATION OF NATURAL-GAS RESOURCES COMPLETE.
...Morales announced the nationalization of Bolivia's ample natural-gas resources on May...2006-05-12). The move strained Bolivia-Brazil relations since Brazil's state...huge assets, and negotiations between Bolivia's government and Petrobras remained... |
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Bolivia moves to occupy gas fields
LA PAZ, Bolivia - President Evo Morales ordered soldiers to occupy Bolivia's natural gas fields Monday and threatened to evict foreign companies unless they give Bolivia control over the entire chain of production. Morales... |
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Bolivia Targets Energy Revenues with Nationalization
...Morning Edition (NPR) 05-03-2006 Bolivia Targets Energy Revenues with NationalizationHost...00 PMRENEE MONTAGNE, host: Troops in Bolivia are standing guard at natural gas fields now that Bolivia President has declared all natural gas... |
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Bolivia to audit nationalized companies.
The government of Bolivia plans to audit three companies run by...Hydrocarbons Minister Carlos Villegas. Bolivia will contract with an international audit...Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales de Bolivia (YPFB) plans to take a minimum 51... |
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B-Bolivia, an allele of the maize b1 gene with variable expression, contains...
B-Bolivia, an Allele of the Maize b1 Gene with Variable Expression...distinct tissue-specific expression, B-Peru and B-Bolivia are the only alleles that confer seed pigmentation. B-Bolivia produces variable and weaker seed expression but... |
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Bolivia's president orders army to natural gas fields after nationalizing...
...Evo Morales ordered soldiers to occupy Bolivia's natural gas fields Monday and threatened...evict foreign companies unless they give Bolivia control over the entire chain of production...Chavez, to increase state control over Bolivia's natural resources, which he says... |
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Bolivia's leftist leader faces complex task in nationalizing natural gas
...BoliviaPresident Evo Morales decision to nationalize Bolivia's natural gas sector has created major...owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA, one of Bolivia's largest energy sector investors, announced it was freezing all investment in Bolivia.Spanish, worried about the fate of... |
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BOLIVIA: NEIGHBORS WORRY ABOUT SUPPLY, PRICING FOR NATURAL GAS
...GIN) -- The presidents ofArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela reaffirmed the...meetingwill lead to any concessions as Bolivia continues nationalizing itsenergy resources...NstorKirchner and presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia, Luiz Incio Lulada Silva of Brazil and... |
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Bolivia, Brazil Patch Up Differences
...refinery in Valle Hermoso, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 395 kilometers outside of La Paz, Saturday...1, President Evo Morales nationalized Bolivia's hydrocarbons industry, sending in...contracts and give majority control to Bolivia and its cash-strapped state-owned... |
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