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Bolivia has three official languages: Spanish (often called Castellano), Quechua, and Aymara. In rural areas, many people do not speak Spanish. Nevertheless, you should be able to get by with some basic Castellano. Bolivia is one of the best places in which to learn or practice your Spanish because of their very clean, deliberate accent. There are many options for studying Spanish in Bolivia, and they are usually very good (often, the program includes a very good homestay component).
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The history of Bolivia is full of such examples. In 1952 the miners defeated and smashed the army and created a workers’ and peasants’ armed militia. Even more recently, in February 2003, a mutiny of the police force was a key part of the uprising. In October of the same year the police allowed tens of thousands of miners and workers, armed with dynamite and shouting “Civil warâ€, to advance towards parliament, and many police officers even gave the angry masses a clenched fist salute! There were ... isolated instances of soldiers refusing to fire at the people of El Alto at that time. These are clear indications that the army and the police are certainly not monolithic and can and should be split along class lines.
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The temperature of public life in Bolivia cooled somewhat in 2004 following the tumultuous events of the previous year. Pres. Carlos Mesa Gisbert, who had taken office after a popular revolt over natural-gas exports drove out his predecessor, made good his promise to submit energy policy to the people.
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The demand for a People’s Assembly has a more clear revolutionary character and is rooted in the revolutionary history of Bolivia. In 1971 a People’s Assembly was convened on the initiative of the COB in a period of revolutionary upsurge. The idea was to develop a body which would replace the discredited bourgeois institutions and that would be a genuine body of workers’ power. A situation of dual power was created at that time, but unfortunately it did not end in favour of the working class and it ended in a bloody military dictatorship of Banzer (see Bolivia is moving towards a third uprising). Meanwhile a big section of the miners was already battling with the police to get access to the square where parliament is located in order to close it down.
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For those of you who haven't heard about Bolivia is because it belongs to Peru. Both Bolivia and Peru in turn are part of the Chilean Empire, won over 1.5 million years ago in the War of the Neanderthals. The Chilean Empire let Bolivia and Peru administer their own territories as a punishment for the ugliness of their people. This punishment, one of the cruelest in recorded history, has had clear effects as peruvians and bolivians are now inmersed in chaos and hunger.
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There is a big festival in Oruro, which is called "El carnaval de Oruro". People in Bolivia like playing football, and football, which is often played in the street. Zoos are ... very popular, but they don't have much money.
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