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...A 1585 watercolour describes the recent founding of Potosí, Bolivia, and its silver mines, against a mountain background with llamas and herders....
...To do so he descended to level 44 of the San Jose mine, a hotter and muddier depth of the hell in which he and 32 other Chilean miners were trapped....
...A third “retreat” followed, Bahia Vik, up the beach in José Ignacio itself....
...Margarita Se Llama Mi Amor, Calle de Fernando VI 9 (+3491-025 9809; www.margaritasellamamiamor.wordpress.com)....
...“Maybe I’d then have the chance to go and see some [other] former presidents, and go looking for [Brazil’s] Lula [da Silva] or [Uruguay’s José] Mujica. That’s my great desire.”...
...True to his humble origins Morales, who is a former Aymara llama herder and coca farmer, would not receive a salary as a player only travel expenses, said the club’s president....
...At Margarita Se Llama Mi Amor (“my love is called Daisy”), a florist on the same street, assistant Dani is putting together a bold bouquet for a lady with a chihuahua on a lead....
...Mr Morales, a former llama herder and coca farmer, said the company made “exorbitant profit” with “derisory” investments, so his government was “obliged to make this decision”....
...They will pass llama herders, wizened old subsistence farmers, shantytowns of illegal gold miners and the site of a proposed mega-dam....
...Some even fear Bolivia may lose a share of its main market for gas exports, neighbouring Brazil, if José Serra wins October’s presidential election....
...“Here Christmas is just about eating lechón [roasted pork], a lot of lechón,” says José Hernández, better known as Chef Pepín, Miami’s Hispanic celebrity caterer....
...Born near the city of Oruro in Bolivia’s western highlands, he spent his childhood tending the family’s llamas and cultivating potatoes....
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