Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolivia's political state of siege was the direct consequence of an economic state of siege. The national budget depends on tin for around 45% of its revenue. With world prices tumbling (from $1.03 to 77¼? lb. in the last four months), tin mines had been closing all over the treeless, three-mile-high altiplano. Since May's bloody Catavi riots (TIME, June 13), almost 10,000 Indian miners had been thrown out of work...