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Every Photographer's Dream: 10 Places to Capture Through the Lens

HomeAway.co.uk | Posted 02.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Safaris, Guizhou, New Zealand, Travel Photography, Adventure Travel, Rio De Janeiro, Cambodia, Travel, Bolivia, Bhutan, Arizona, Petra, Botswana, China, UK Lifestyle News
HomeAway.co.uk

The world is full of spectacular destinations that have been captured through the lense by those lucky enough to travel to these incredible places, from the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower to the ruins of Machu Picchu and the Colosseum.

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Bolivian Lawmaker ‘Filmed Sexually Assaulting Unconscious Colleague’

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 22.01.2013 | UK
Read More: Evo Morales Bolivia, UK News, UK Crime, Rape, Youtube, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Ramiro Guerrero, UK News

An investigation has been launched after footage of a Bolivian lawmaker apparently raping an unconscious colleague came to light. The CCTV footage...

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Coca and Snus: Sweden's Self-defeating Hypocrisy on Drugs

Damon Barrett | Posted 17.03.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Cigarettes, United Nations, Bolivia, War on Drugs, Tobacco, Snus, Sweden, Cocaine, European Union, Eu, UK Politics News
Damon Barrett

Sweden has made the defence of the entire 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs a central part of its foreign policy on drugs. This is unthinking, uncritical and blinkered.

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To Look Tough on Drugs, and Please the US, the UK is Willing to Trample on Indigenous Rights

Damon Barrett | Posted 08.03.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: United States, Bolivia, War on Drugs, Coca, United Kingdom, United Nations, Cocaine, Sweden, World, Drugs, UK Politics News
Damon Barrett

This is the supply-side enforcement approach to drugs that has dominated since the mid 20th Century. We now know this to be quixotic, abusive nonsense even as it remains so vigorously pursued. Today, more than 180 countries have signed up.

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Conflicts and Conundrums: How the Venezuelan State Must Strike the Balance With its Indigenous People

Stephanie Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2013 | UK
Read More: Bolivia, Hugo Chavez, Jay Rockefeller, Cattle Ranchers, Indigenous, Latin America, Agriculture, Colombia, Land Demarcation, Indigenous People, Carbon, Venezuela, Mining, Sabino Romero, Demarcation, Indigenous Territory, Sierra De Perijá, Evo Morales, Indigenous Rights, Bienhechurias, Yukpa, Brillenbourg, UK News
Stephanie Kennedy

To the west of the country, the Sierra de Perijá, a stretch of both mountains and plains, traces the conflictive border zone between Colombia and Venezuela. The region's inhabitants are, today, a mixture of indigenous groups, cattle farmers, both rich and humble, and the inevitable generational pool of all three.

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British Academic Jailed For Drug Smuggling In 'Honeytrap Sting'

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 22.11.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Cocaine Smuggling, Argentina, Bolivia, Jail, Buenos Aires, Drug Smuggling, Cocaine, UK News

An Oxford-educated academic has been jailed for almost five years after being caught with two kilograms of cocaine at an Argentinian airport in a hone...

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Lost and Found in Latin America Part Four

Lloyd Rundle | Posted 15.07.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Guayaramerin, La Paz-Bolivia, Landslide, Camino De La Muerte, Bolivia, Travel, Rainy-Season, Coca Leaves, UK Lifestyle News
Lloyd Rundle

Coca leaves play a siginficant role in Andean cultures as a curative. Traditionally chewed or made into tea, they are widely available in Bolivia. I was chewing them to avoid altitude sickness. Without them I don't think I would ever have made it through that journey. At least not intact...

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Lost and Found in Latin America Part Three

Lloyd Rundle | Posted 04.07.2012 | UK
Read More: Bolivia, Immigration, Coco Leaves, Rio Mamore, Guayaramerin, UK News
Lloyd Rundle

We reached the Brazilian town of Guajará-Mirim at around 11pm. I finally got some sleep by putting my headphones on. Maybe - just maybe - the woman ...

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PHOTOS: Sean Penn Dons Traditional Dress During Bolivian Tour

Posted 16.02.2012 | UK
Read More: Argentina, Bolivia, UK News, Sean Penn, UK World, Falkland Islands, Simon Weston, UK News

US actor Sean Penn has been pictured wearing traditional Bolivian traditional dress during his tour of South America, where he has been speaking out a...

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Our Favourite Surreal Landscapes On the Planet

Black Tomato | Posted 13.01.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Black Tomato, Turkey, Jordan, Halong Bay, Wadi Rum, Surreal, Bolivia, Vietnam, Arizona, Cappadocia, Painted Desert, Landscape, Slidepollajax, UK Lifestyle News
Black Tomato

As Pipilotti Rist's must-see 'Eyeball Massage' exhibition continues at the Hayward Gallery in London, it's got us here at Black Tomato thinking about ...

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Protests With Meaning - Here's What We Should be Doing

Josephine Forster | Posted 11.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Protests, Bolivia, Budget Cuts, Students, UK News
Josephine Forster

This week's London student protest was disappointingly peaceful. That seems to be all anybody has to say about it. After predictions of violence and recycled riot photos, we were let down flat by a protest that was, well, just a protest.

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How to Stop a Multinational in 10 Steps

Rodrigo Vazquez | Posted 10.12.2011 | Home
Read More: Human Rights, Barrick Gold, Bolivia, Water, Andean Mountains, Gold, Free Market Capitalism, Home News
Rodrigo Vazquez

The Bolivian uprisings and the increasing realisation that climate change was affecting our environment was the spark of what became a new form of activism. One that sprang to life thanks to the plans of a foreign mega-mining company.

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