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Bolivia's Aymara indigenous people look at information on candidates before voting during the national elections in Penas, some 30 km (18 miles) of La Paz, October 16, 2011. Bolivians voted on Sunday to choose national judges for the first time as part of a reform aimed at boosting the...

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Bolivians line up to vote during the national elections in Penas, some 30 km (18 miles) of La Paz, October 16, 2011. Bolivians voted on Sunday to choose national judges for the first time as part of a reform aimed at boosting the political clout of the country's indigenous majority and...

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Indigenous people rest at a camp in Yolosa, 90 Km north of La Paz on October 13, 2011. Amazonic indigenous people march since August 15 towards La Paz, where they will meet Bolivian President Evo Morales to ask him to desist on the construction of a highway that would divide in two an...

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A volunteer medical doctor assists an indigenous man at a camp in Yolosa, 90 Km north of La Paz on October 13, 2011. Amazonic indigenous people march since August 15 towards La Paz, where they will meet Bolivian President Evo Morales to ask him to desist on the construction of a highway...

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An indigenous woman puts clothes to dry at a camp in Yolosa, 90 Km north of La Paz on October 13, 2011. Amazonic indigenous people march since August 15 towards La Paz, where they will meet Bolivian President Evo Morales to ask him to desist on the construction of a highway that would...

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Indigenous men play music in Yolosa, 90 Km north of La Paz on October 13, 2011. Amazonic indigenous people march since August 15 towards La Paz, where they will meet Bolivian President Evo Morales to ask him to desist on the construction of a highway that would divide in two an ecologic...

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Indigenous people wash their clothes in the Yolosa River, 90 Km north of La Paz on October 13, 2011. Amazonic indigenous people march since August 15 towards La Paz, where they will meet Bolivian President Evo Morales to ask him to desist on the construction of a highway that would...

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An indigenous woman prepares food at a camp in Yolosa, 90 Km north of La Paz on October 13, 2011. Amazonic indigenous people march since August 15 towards La Paz, where they will meet Bolivian President Evo Morales to ask him to desist on the construction of a highway that would divide...

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Retired elders take a break in the hamlet of Konani, in the Bolivian altiplano some 160 km south of La Paz, on April 28, 2011 as they march towards La Paz to demand the government of President Evo Morales a 10 percent raise in their pensions to level with the 10-11 percent raise decreed...

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A doctor assists a retired person in the hamlet of Konani, in the Bolivian altiplano some 160 km south of La Paz, on April 28, 2011 as elder pensioners march towards La Paz to demand the government of President Evo Morales a 10 percent raise in their pensions to level with the 10-11 percent...

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Aymara and Quecchua indigenous people from the Andean highlands eat after their arrival in La Paz October 10, 2011. Hundreds of them are supporting the indigenous community living in the Isiboro Secure Territory, known by its Spanish acronym TIPNIS, who are in their 57th day of a long...

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Marchers rest during their advance towards the Bolivian capital on the outskirts of Caranavi, Bolivia, Sunday Oct. 9, 2011. Opponents of President Evo Morales, indigenous and environmentalist groups began an estimated 242-mile march from Trinidad to La Paz Aug. 15, in a protest to a...

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Indigenous Bolivians march from Sica Sica town to La Paz, 138 km (86 miles) away, October 4, 2011, to support the indigenous Indians living in the protected park in the Isiboro Secure Territory, known as TIPNIS, and against the police crackdown on demonstrators. Bolivian President Evo...

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Protesters push riot policemen at the vice president building where Bolivia's President Evo Morales cabinet and leaders of national union workers are meeting in La Paz, April 16, 2011. Bolivian trade unions continued their strike on Saturday to demand a higher wage rise than the 10...

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Bolivian workers' leaders walk before a meeting with President Evo Morales' cabinet in La Paz, April 16, 2011. Bolivian trade unions continued their strike on Saturday to demand a higher wage rise than the 10 percent offered by the government, the Andean country's biggest umbrella...

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Pedro Montes, head of the COB labour federation, speaks to the media before a meeting with President Evo Morales' cabinet in La Paz, April 16, 2011. Bolivian trade unions continued their strike to demand a higher wage rise than the 10 percent offered by the government, the Andean...

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Policemen guard the vice presidency building where leaders of Bolivian workers and President Evo Morales' cabinet are meeting in La Paz, April 16, 2011. Bolivian trade unions continued their strike on Saturday to demand a higher wage rise than the 10 percent offered by the government,...

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A protester holds a noose rope with the first name of Bolivia's President Evo Morales during a rally in La Paz, April 15, 2011. Bolivian trade unions continued their strike on Friday in their ninth day of protest to demand a higher wage rise than the 10 percent offered by the...

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FILE - In this April 15, 2011 file photo, effigies, made from donkey carcasses, representing Bolivia's President Evo Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera serve as a road barricade during a protest demanding an increased minimum wage in Apacheta, outskirts of El Alto, Bolivia.

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Effigies made from donkey carcasses representing Bolivia's President Evo Morales and Bolivia's Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera block a road during a protest in Apacheta, outskirts of El Alto, Bolivia, Friday April 15, 2011. The protest was called by the Bolivian Workers Central...

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Local residents march in support of the Amazonian natives marching toward La Paz on September 28, 2011 in Rurrenabaque, Bolivia. Sacha Llorenti, Bolivia's interior minister and a top official in leftist President Evo Morales' government, resigned Tuesday over a violent weekend crackdown...

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Bolivia's new Defense Minister Ruben Saavedra attends a swearing-in ceremony in La Paz September 27, 2011. Bolivia's former Interior Minister Sacha Llorenti and former Defense Minister Cecilia Chacon resigned on Tuesday and Monday respectively as President Evo Morales tries to limit...

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A clown (R) entertains children sons of Amazonian natives in a camp in the village of Rurrenabaque, Bolivia, on September 27, 2011. Amazon Indians in Bolivia mulled new protests Tuesday against a planned road through a nature preserve even though President Evo Morales put the project...

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Amazonian women get help from local residents in the village of Rurrenabaque, Bolivia, on September 27, 2011. Amazon Indians in Bolivia mulled new protests Tuesday against a planned road through a nature preserve even though President Evo Morales put the project on hold, as two more...

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Amazonian natives rest in the village of Rurrenabaque, Bolivia, on September 27, 2011. Amazon Indians in Bolivia mulled new protests Tuesday against a planned road through a nature preserve even though President Evo Morales put the project on hold, as two more officials resigned over...