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...It shows Máxima Acuña dressed in the traditional clothing of the Peruvian Andes, holding her fist aloft. Acuña is smiling, but her story is deadly serious....
...Next year 11,150 people are expected to take part in 40 events that range from running across the Namib desert to a cycle traverse of the Andes....
...“The new MAS government has a clear mandate to govern,” said Jim Schultz, director of the Democracy Center in the US and Bolivia expert....
...Jim Sherwood, the company’s founder, knew an opportunity when he saw one....
...Certainly, to quote a favourite Stanford Graduate School of Business’ author Jim Collins, “these are big, hairy and audacious goals”....
...Thought to be one of the oldest cultures in the Andes, they survived as fishermen for millennia on the shores of the salty Lake Poopó, one of Bolivia’s largest water bodies, outlasting the Inca Empire and...
...Made from white Muscat of Alexandria grapes, singani is a pomace brandy produced in the Bolivian Andes....
...In particular, Mr Thornton will have noted Barrick’s problems at its now shelved Pascua-Lama project, straddling Argentina and Chile in the Andes, where the company struggled to maintain support....
...He has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and the highest peak in the Andes, and visited Everest base camp....
...From outer space, Bolivia’s vast Salar de Uyuni is a pale blue comma in the squiggly brown sentence that is the Andes, big enough for scientists to use to calibrate satellite instruments....
...Among those published after the tumultuous 1986 season on K2, during which 13 climbers were killed, was Jim Curran’s K2: Triumph and Tragedy, a gripping tale of human drama, hubristic ambition and utter...
...ParisJim Goldberg US photographer Jim Goldberg’s exhibition Open See opens on May 5 at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson....
...Perhaps seen from the far side of the Andes, the British prime minister’s domestic problems will not seem quite so daunting....
...There they farmed coca, which has been used for centuries in the Andes as a stimulant but which by then had become an important export crop, ending up as cocaine on the streets of the US and Europe....
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