Bolivia 
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SOURCE: NYT
10-9-17
Execution Still Haunts Village, 50 Years After Che Guevara’s Death
Residents of a tiny Bolivian hamlet vividly recall the day the guerrilla leader was shot at their school. "For us, this was a time of suffering," says a woman who brought him soup.
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10-1-17
What Happened to the People Behind the Assassination of Che Guevara?
by Jonathan C. Brown
50 years later, we know.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-9-15
In Bolivia, Pope Francis Apologizes for Church’s ‘Grave Sins’
Francis repeated familiar themes in sharply critiquing the global economic order and warning of environmental catastrophe — but also added a new twist with his apology.
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SOURCE: New Historian
5-18-15
Skulls Suggest Violence Used as a Tool of Political Control
Three skulls found in Bolivia have revealed that torture for reasons other than religious rituals and trophy-head taking was not just an iconographic feature of the pre-Columbian cultures in the region, but a very real practice.
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SOURCE: Salon
2-9-15
Scientists discovered air pollution that’s nearly 500 years old
Humans have been spewing pollution into the atmosphere for a long, long time
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