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ISSUE: June 20, 2005VOL.
43, NO. 12Oakland,
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Prayers in Bolivia
An elderly Bolivian Indian couple pray for peace in front of a pile of
coca leaves in La Paz where tens of thousands of miners and peasants had
descended to demand nationalization of the country's energy resources.
The monthlong blockade brought down the president and the new caretaker
president agreed to call early elections.