Bolivia.
Bolivia's modern history is often distilled to “188 coup attempts in 157 years.” But while such political tumult did occur, this statement is a superficial characterization of one of the most culturally and ecologically diverse nations in Latin America. This landlocked country has struggled during its modern era with a legacy of colonialism and competing tensions between nationalist visions of the elite minority and popular class majority. Two-thirds of Bolivia's population is made up of three dozen Amerindian groups. Of that population approximately one-third speaks Quechua and one-quarter speaks Aymara. The remaining one-third of the total population is mostly mestizo or ... ...
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