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Boliva- El Corazon de Sudamerica

Personajes Importantes

` Simn Patio (18611947) nacido en Cochabamba, fue uno de loshombres ms ricos del mundo, por el descubrimiento de una mina deestao (un metal plateado) en Potosi.

` Marina Nez del Prado (19101995) fue una escultora y artista deLa Paz y es muy conocida por sus obras en el estilo del cuerpo

femenino. Vivi en Lima por 20 aos y hoyenda se puede visita un

jardn de esculturas en el Museo Marina Nuez del Prado.

` Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutierrez (1930 2010) S Uds. conocenla pelcula ``

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tand and Deliver, seguramente van a reconocer elpersonaje de Jaime Escalante, quien fue un profesor de matemticas

que fue a California para ensear en los aos 70 y lleg a ser uno de

los maestros ms celebrados del siglo 20.

` Luzmila Carpio (1954- ) es una cantante de la msica folklricade la tradicin quechua y aymara. En general, Carpio canta en quechua

en vez de espaol y toca el charango. Por medio de su msica, Carpio

promueva las causas de las comunidades indgenas de Bolivia.

` EvoMorales (1959- ) es el actual presidente de Bolivia y fueelegido en diciembre de 2005 con el partido poltico MAS, lo que es

el Movimiento al Socialismo. Es conocido por ser el primer lder

aymara y ha representado la mayora indgena y ha dirigido el

movimiento de los cocaleros de Bolivia.

` Aspectos Histricos` Descubrimientode plataenel Cerro Ricoen Potos(1544) By the

time the wandering Indian Diego Huallpa revealed his earth --

shattering discovery of silver at Cerro Rico (Rich Hill) in Potos in

1544, Spanish conquerors had already firmly implanted their

language, religion and customs on the remnants of Atahualpas

empire. Founded in 1545 as a mining town, Potos soon produced

fabulous wealth, becoming the largest city in the New World with a

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population exceeding 150,000 people. [24] Continents richest store

of silver.

` Independencia deEspaa (1824) Bolivia was finally freed ofRoyalist dominion by Antonio Jos de Sucre, with a military

campaign coming from the North in support of the campaign ofSimn Bolvar. After 16 years of war the Republic was

proclaimed on 6 August 1825, named Bolivia in honor of Bolvar.

1825 - Bolivia becomes independent with Simon Bolivar (El

Libertador) as its president

` La Guerradel Pacfico (1879-1883) In 1879, Chile and Boliviawent to war after spending decades bickering over a border

dispute. Peru, which had a military alliance with Bolivia, was

drawn into the war as well. After a series of major battles atsea and on land, the Chileans were victorious. By 1881 the

Chilean army had captured Lima and by 1884 Bolivia signed a

truce. As a result of the war, Chile gained the disputed coastal

province once and for all, leaving Bolivia landlocked, and also

gained the province of Arica from Peru. The Peruvia n and

Bolivian nations were devastated, needing years to recover.

` Exportacinde Coca (1970- )` The coca leaf is the basic ingredient for producing cocaine. Several decades ago Bolivia

was the largest producer of the coca plant, from which the leaves are harvested. In the

1970s when cocaine became a valuable product in the international drug culture, the

coca leaf assumed an importance that it never had before. Bolivia became an

important country for the illegal production of cocaine because it grew the basic

ingredientthe leaf. Coca plants suddenly became an important element in the

Bolivian economy and politics.

` The cultivation and sale of the illegal crop became an undetermined but appreciablepart of the Bolivian economy and exports. It is often claimed that in the 1980s coca

leaf (and some paste) exports equaled or surpassed all legal exports, coming to at least

15 percent of Bolivia's real revenues. The Bolivian government estimates that coca-leafproduction expanded from 1.63 million kilograms from 4,100 hectares in 1977 to 45

million kilograms from 48,000 hectares in 1987. The number of growers rose from

7,600 to about 40,000. Most of this took place in the central sub-tropical region of

Chapare (the transitional area from the mountainous valleys to the eastern lowlands),

which is well-suited for producing leaves of high aciditya characteristic that is

desirable for making cocaine.

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` No sean bobos les deca, jntense. Nosotros, all en Bolivia, nosjuntamos. Aunque sea para pelearnos, nos juntamos.

` Y cunta razn tena.` Porque, digo yo: existen los dientes, si no se juntan en la boca? Existen los

dedos, si no se juntan en la mano?

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coca-leaves

El Senado de Bolivia sanciona una nueva ley que servir para "denunciar" la

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