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In this April 30, 2019 photo, Erika Andia, director of the theater group Kory Warmis or Women of Gold, performs holding a prop representing a newborn baby in the play &quot;Kusisita,&quot; at the Municipal Theater, in La Paz, Bolivia. The theater group, which was founded in 2014, finds itself gaining an audience as waves of women mobilize to fight gender violence across the world. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Bolivian women fight gender-based violence through theater

By PAOLA FLORES - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by the government-run Bolivian Information Agency, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, who is running for re-election with the Movement Toward Socialism, MAS, party, speaks during the opening campaign rally on a runway at the airport in Chimore, Bolivia, Saturday, May 18, 2019. Morales is running for a fourth term. (Freddy Zarco/Bolivian Information Agency via AP)

Bolivia’s Morales begins bid for 4th term despite complaints

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FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2017 file photo, a supporter of Bolivia's President Evo Morales waves a party flag during a march supporting his re-election, despite a referendum ruling out his run for a fourth term, in La Paz, Bolivia. The prominent human rights group Human Rights Watch says Bolivia has undermined judicial independence by arbitrarily dismissing nearly 100 judges since 2017 and it’s asking the Organization of American States to address the issue. HRW says the judges haven’t been given any reason for the dismissals by a Magistrates Council dominated by Morales' allies. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

Rights group alarmed by ouster of Bolivian judges

By CARLOS VALDEZ - Associated Press

Bus collision in Bolivia leaves at least 22 dead, 37 injured

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A man who appears to be Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti enters the cabin door of a plane before it takes off for Italy, where he will serve a life sentence, at the airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Battisti escaped from an Italian prison in 1981 while awaiting trial on four counts of murder allegedly committed when he was a member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Italian militant reassigned to island prison

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FILE - In this April 12, 2012 file photo, Italian Cesare Battisti attends the presentation of his book about his experience in prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Italy sent an aircraft to Bolivia on Sunday Jan. 13, 2019, to pick up fugitive communist militant Cesare Battisti after he was captured there nearly three decades after he was convicted of murder, setting the stage for a climax to one of Italy’s longest-running sagas. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Italian fugitive captured 3 decades after murder conviction

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this frame grab taken by a video released by the Italian Police, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, Italian fugitive communist militant Cesare Battisti walks in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Italy sent an aircraft to Bolivia on Sunday to pick up Battisti after he was captured there nearly three decades after he was convicted of murder, setting the stage for a climax to one of Italy’s longest-running sagas.(Italian Police Via AP)

The Latest: Bolivia cops say Battisti now in Italy’s custody

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This Dec. 11, 2018, file photo shows a llama on the Vinto homestead, on the outskirts of Santiago de Machaca, Bolivia. Friendly and endearing, the llama has wandered across the Bolivian plains in scattered herds since it was domesticated in South America more than 4,000 years ago. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) ** FILE **

Llamas help Andes peoples survive, but youths are leaving

By CARLOS VALDEZ - Associated Press

In this Dec. 4, 2018 photo, women farmers plant radishes in a field that gets irrigated with sewage water that comes from the nearby river in Valencia, Bolivia. What gets flushed down in Bolivia's capital city is used to irrigate the green, leafy fields that supply its produce markets. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Water from sewage rivers used to grow vegetables in Bolivia

By PAOLA FLORES - Associated Press

Bolivian police search for ex-drug lord who fled clinic

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FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2018 file photo, Bolivia's President Evo Morales speaks during a press conference in Government Palace in La Paz, Bolivia. Bolivia’s top electoral court announced Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, that it has accepted Morales’ candidacy for a fourth term in office despite a constitutional ban and referendum against such a re-election. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

Electoral court accepts Bolivian president’s re-election bid

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Margaret Oliele, former detained patient, poses for a portrait in her home in Nairobi, Kenya. During a botched cesarean section in 2010, doctors left a pair of surgical scissors inside her stomach; a second surgery was needed to remove the scissors and she later suffered a ruptured bladder and a blood infection. When she couldn’t pay her hospital fees, Oliele was taken to a detention ward. “I tried to escape, but when I got to the main gate, I was taken by the security guards.” (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

AP Investigation: Hospital patients held hostage for cash

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

View of the U.N. World Court where judges delivered their verdict on a request by Bolivia, left table, for judges to order Chile, rear center table, to enter talks over granting its landlocked neighbor access to the Pacific Ocean, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

UN court rejects Bolivia’s Pacific Ocean access case

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this Aug. 23, 2018 photo, 117-year-old Julia Flores Colque eyes the camera while sitting outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. Her national identity card says Flores Colque was born on Oct. 26, 1900 in a mining camp in the Bolivian mountains. At 117 and just over 10 months, she would be the oldest woman in the Andean nation and perhaps the oldest living person in the world. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Bolivian woman might be world’s oldest at nearly 118

By CARLOS VALDEZ - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, left, and Argentina's Defense Minister Oscar Raul Aguad shake hands in Buenos Aires, Argentina Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Mattis is on an official visit to several South American countries. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

James Mattis: South American countries selling sovereignty to China, Russia

By Martin Arostegui — Special To The Washington Times

In this July 10, 2018 photo, a woman sits at her shop of Andean amulets and offerings to the &quot;Pachamama,&quot; or Mother Earth, at the Witches' Market in La Paz, Bolivia. At the market, people buy medicinal plants to heal their bodies and ward off curses, while &quot;yatiris,&quot; or indigenous healers, offer to read their fortunes on coca leaves. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A testament to the Andean gods survives in Bolivia’s capital

By CARLOS VALDEZ - Associated Press

During his 12 years in office, Evo Morales has legalized the cultivation of coca leaves used to make cocaine, expelled U.S. counternarcotics agents from Bolivia and showered the coca-growing valley of Chapare with major public works projects, including an international airport. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Evo Morales’ cyberwarriors look to sway Bolivian election

By Martin Arostegui — Special to The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, May 8, 2018 photo, imaging technician Greg Doolittle holds a moche horizontal knife from Peru at Valley Inspection Service in Allentown, Pa. Doolittle has been performing non-destructive high power x-ray imaging to study 100 Peruvian objects that are owned by a private collector in New York City. The work is a joint research study organized by retired Lehigh University professor Michael Notis, professor Aaron Shugar of Buffalo State University, and by Dr. Dong Ning Wang, an adjunct professor at Lehigh. (Harry Fisher/The Morning Call via AP)

Researchers imaging ancient treasures find hidden history

By DANIEL PATRICK SHEEHAN and The (Allentown) Morning Call - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2003, file photo, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada speaks during a news conference in Mexico City. A U.S. jury has found the former president of Bolivia and his defense minister responsible for government killings during 2003 unrest in a lawsuit filed by Bolivians whose family members were among the slain. The jury verdict came Tuesday, April 3, 2018, after a nearly three-week trial in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo Marco Ugarte, File)

Ex-Bolivian president loses civil suit involving 2003 unrest

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press

Firemen review the site where a liquefied gas bottle exploded, in Oruro, Bolivia, Saturday, Feb.10, 2018. Four children and two adults died while another 13 people were injured after a street vendor's gas can exploded near the entrance route of the Oruro Carnival, police said. (AP Photo)

Gas explosion at Bolivia Carnival leaves 6 dead, 28 injured

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