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A broad portfolio representing the historic period of 2003-2010 in Bolivia, the small, landlocked South American country that dared to elect a leader of indigenous heritage, to boost left leaning policies and to expel a US ambassador. An utopia of equality and raise of self-esteem in the heart of one of the most indigenous countries in the world.
  • A woman sells hot dogs as the night closes in by the city of La Paz, in the background on October 2007.

  • Aymara priests, or Yatiris, lights a ceremonial fire in which they burn alcohol, llama featuses, sugar and other sacred stuff before they welcome the first rays of morning sunlight celebrating their New Year in the archaeological and turistic city of Tiwanaku, nearly 70 km northeast of Bolivian capital La Paz on Saturday, June 21, 2003. Aymaras celebrate their 5511ft year and consider June 21 the day that marks the winter solstice and Aymara New Year.

  • An indigenous man stands in front of a mural depicting leftist and guerilla leader Ernesto Che Guevara in the place where he was captured and killed by Bolivian troops 39 years ago in the village of La Higuera, some 300 southeast of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia on Wednesday, June 14, 2006.

  • A Bolivian military officer looks on while a cocaine pit is burned in the middle of the rainforest region of Chapare in Bolivia on Tuesday, May 16, 2006.(Dado Galdieri)

  • Opposition supporters gather at the closing campaign rally for the autonomy after voting for autonomy in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Voters in Bolivia's largest state passed asweeping autonomy referendum Sunday, dealing a blow to the country's leftist president and deepening an entrenched political conflict.(Dado Galdieri)

  • A riot police officer holds his position during clashes against a demonstrator in La Paz, Bolivia on Tuesday, June 7, 2005. A resignation offer by President Carlos Mesa, whose 19-month-old free-market government was unraveling, did little to halt a crippling blockade of the Bolivian capital, as demonstrators marched on La Paz for a second day Tuesday to demand more power for Bolivia's poor Indian majority.(Dado Galdieri)

  • Indigenous farmers receive tractors from president Evo Morales during a ceremony in Ucurena, Cochabamba on August 8, 2006. Bolivian leftist government struggles to provide means of production and redistribute land to peasant farmers.(Dado Galdieri)

  • Bolivian indigenous women Juana Yujra, 63, right, and Julieta Luna Aliaga, 55, take their first week of an alphabetization program lead by the Bolivian government backed by technical cooperation with Cuba in Laja, 37 km (22 miles) from La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, March 24, 2006. Bolivian president Evo Morales, an indigenous descendant himself, is trying to eradicate illiteracy in the country. (Dado Galdieri)

  • Bolivian riot police officers stand guard at the Plaza Murillo afraid that angry demonstrators get too close to the political center of the country.Thousands of protesters marched against the possible exportation of liquid gas through a Chilean port in La Paz, Bolivia on Friday, September 19, 2003. (Dado Galdieri)

  • A retired miner fakes his own funeral as a way to demand better retirement cnditions in the city of La Paz, Bolivia.(Dado Galdieri)

  • State-employed miners throw dynamite sticks at independent miners trying to take control of a facility in the city of Huanuni, some 150 kms (around 95 miles) southeast of capital La Paz, Bolivia on Friday, Oct. 6, 2006. Hundreds of miners belonging to independent cooperatives stormed the state-owned Huanuni mine, demanding more access to its tin deposits. State-employed miners counterattacked to regain control of the mine and the groups exchanged gunshots and threw sticks of dynamite. (Dado Galdieri)

  • Two demonstrators make their way through a blockaded road leading to Peru, some 80 km south of La Paz, Bolivia on Thursday, June 2, 2005. Senate President Hormando Vaca Diez suspended a joint session of Congress Wednesday to give time to the different parties to agree on two key demands that triggered the protests, calling a constitutional assembly and a referendum to decide on greater autonomy for several regions.(Dado Galdieri)

  • A baby hangs from the ceiling of a coca market while bags of dried coca leaves wait to be bought and load to Cochabamba in Villa 14 de Septiembre, Chapare, Bolivia on January 2006.(Dado Galdieri)

  • Backdropped by the city of La Paz, Giovana, a young waitress and supporter of Bolivian president Evo Morales stands by the door of his relative's bar in the city's outskirts Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.Bolivians will hold a national recall vote on August 10 that could either grant greater support to Morales, his vice president and eight state governors or force them to step down. The grafitti in the wall reads "Evo Yes". (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)

  • Bolivian leftist president Evo Morales, center, gets ready to play a soccer match in his hometown Orinoca, some 297km south of La Paz, Bolivia on Saturday, July 22, 2006. Four leftist presidents amongst them Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Brazil's Lula da Silva, Bolivia's Evo Morales and Argentina's Nestor Kirchner are planning to gather for a soccer match after the inauguration of the upcoming National Assembly in Sucre, next August 6, according to President Morales, who personally invited the others. At his left side is an unideitified security agent and at right his former spokesperson Alex Contreras.(Dado Galdieri)

  • Indigenous Bolivian women cry as they walk in a funeral procession in honor of nine police officers who were killed in clashes last Wednesday, in La Paz, Bolivia on Friday, Feb. 14, 2003. The violence in La Paz began Wednesday when 7,000 striking police officers and civilian protesters clashed with government troops over a new tax plan. The rampage left 22 people dead.(Dado Galdieri)

  • An angry elderly demonstrator shouts offenses against lawmakers on a session at the national congress nearby as they last to approve an agreement between opposition and government in La Paz, Bolivia on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)

  • An Aymara woman walks up the hills that surround La Paz while a man waits for transportation on a chilly morning after a snow storm hit the world's highest capital on July, 26, 2007.(Dado Galdieri)

  • Indigenous supporters of Bolivia's President Evo Morales shout anti autonomy slogans during a demonstration in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia Friday May 2, 2008. Eastern residents of rebellious province Santa Cruz will hold a regional referendum over autonomy next May 4th but the central, leftist government of president Evo Morales claims it illegal. (Dado Galdieri)

  • Bolivian indigenous demonstrator Maxima Luna arranges her hair as she guards a road blockade, top left, on a road leading to Peru, some 80 km (50 miles) south of La Paz, Bolivia on Thursday, June 2, 2005. Senate President Hormando Vaca Diez suspended a joint session of Congress Wednesday to give time to the different parties to agree on two key demands that triggered the protests, calling a constitutional assembly and a referendum to decide on greater autonomy for several regions.(Dado Galdieri)

  • Indigenous leaders march through the streets of La Paz, Monday, June 9, 2008. Thousands of demonstrators protested against the U.S. decision to grant political asylum to former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sanchez, who fled the country during violent protests in 2003 that killed at least 60 people, most shot by troops under his command. Sanchez is accused of genocide in Bolivia.(Dado Galdieri)

  • Bolivian miners stand waiting for the announcement of president Carlos Mesa's resignation near Murillo square, as they try to get close to the Bolivian National Congress in La Paz, Bolivia on Wednesday, May 18, 2005.(Dado Galdieri)

  • Bolivian police officers riot against demonstrators during a rally in La Paz, Bolivia on May 2005.(Dado Galdieri)

  • An opposition demonstrator holds a slingshot while rioting against Bolivian police officers in Santa Cruz, Bolivia,Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008.AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)

  • Bolivian farmers,supporters of president Evo Morales stand guard as a march against autonomy enters the small, opponent village of Buena Vista, some 100km north of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)

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