Culture Shock! Bolivia - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

(Grace) #1
‘The people [of Bolivia] who rose up in the last several
years got riddled with bullets, but they prevented their gas
from evaporating into the hands of others, unprivatized
their water..., overthrew governments governed from
abroad, and said no to the income tax and other wise
orders from the International Monetary Fund.’
Eduardo Galeano, internationally esteemed
Uruguayan writer, from ‘The Second Founding of
Bolivia,’ La Jornada (9 February 2006)

The Bolivian People


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