Bolivia

Bolivia’s president is facing wild and violent opposition from where the European Descended elite stay and where most of Bolivia’s petroleum reserves are found. Bolivia is located near the center of the Andes Mountains, the mountains consist of northeast-southwest mountain ranges, called cordillera. The Andes divide Bolivia into three geographic zones: the Altiplano in the west; the Yungas and valleys of the eastern mountain slopes; and the lowlands that make up roughly two thirds of the eastern part of the country. Bolivia’s “ethnic distribution is approximately 55 percent full Amerindian, 30 percent Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) and around 15 percent white. The four largest of the approximately three-dozen native groups are the Quechuas (2.5 million), Aymaras (2 million), then Chiquitano (180,000) and Guaraní (125,000)“ (Lineback and Lineback Gritzner, BITTERLY DIVIDED BOLIVIA). Since their population can be classified as widely diverse they have 3 official languages; Spanish, Quechua and Aymara.

Bolivia is identified as being under developed in going as far to say that “Bolivia is one of the least developed countries in South America” (Lineback and Lineback Gritzner, BITTERLY DIVIDED BOLIVIA). Most of their residents live in poverty and take part in subsistence farming out of necessity. In contrast, the discovery of petroleum and natural gas reserves in the eastern lowlands of the country has brought economic growth to this region. It has also not been conducive that Bolivia lost portions of its territory in wars with Chile, Brazil, and Paraguay. Chile had even taken Bolivia’s only outlet to the Pacific Ocean, detaching them from modernized