Word: paz
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...lack of opportunity to get into crime." Despite dire prospects, the poor keep arriving in the city of 18 million. As joblessness, crime and violence continue to grow, the rich are beginning to take flight. Mariana Montoro Jens, who works for an antiviolence ngo called Instituto Sou da Paz, says: "People think of this as the country of soccer and samba. But this is a violent country." The rise of the pcc is one sign of that. Says Ferréz: "In a place where the state doesn't care and the police are your enemy, this is what happens...
...What's more, in Santa Cruz and three other eastern states, voters approved a call to have the new constitution give their state governments greater independence from the central government in the capital, La Paz. Lowlanders like Daniel Castro, spokesman for the Santa Cruz Civic Committee, insist the autonomy drive reflects the need for "a new system in which each state has control over their own economic resources. If I want to change a lightbulb in a public office here I have to send away to La Paz for the funds...
...Paz and the four other western states that voted against the autonomy item, highlanders like Patricio Mamani of the working-class El Alto community note that regions like Santa Cruz are where most of Bolivia's prodigious natural gas is located - reserves that Morales nationalized earlier this year as part of his government's reversal of recent Washington-backed free-market reforms in the country. "The elite in Santa Cruz want autonomy in order to control the wealth there," said Mamani during the vote on July 2. "They want to live off those riches and not share with the rest...
...it” and shied away from addressing political themes directly.Valentine also warns against trying to understand artwork “too rationally or too literally right away.” Instead one should just listen to the sound of the words, she says, quoting the Mexican writer Octavio Paz: “Listen to me as one listens to the rain.”Her more recent work has become increasingly spiritual with frequent references to dreams and phenomena beyond our world.Valentine says that contemporary culture is less receptive to poetry than in the fifties when she started writing...
TIME Bolivia receives more than $100 million annually in economic aid from the U.S. Can and should relations be improved between La Paz and Washington...