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!!Notable Bolivians/people of Bolivian descent:
* Creator/RaquelWelch, birth name Jo Raquel Tejada, was born to a Bolivian father. After she broke through as an actress, she kept her first husband's last name as her stage name, even though she eventually divorced him (and went on to marry and divorce three more men after that). Her cousin, Lidia Gueiler, became Bolivia's first female president, ruling from 1979 to 1980.
* Creator/BenMikaelsen is a Bolivian-American writer of Danish descent.
* American actress Creator/StephanieBeatriz was born in Argentina to a Colombian father and a Bolivian mother.
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Bolivia is well known for its AndeanMusic, alongside Peru and Ecuador, with popular folk bands such as Music/LosKjarkas.
The second half of the James Bond film ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' is set here, and ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' takes place entirely here.
The second half of the James Bond film ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' is set here, and ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' takes place entirely here.
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Bolivia is well known for its AndeanMusic, alongside Peru and Ecuador, UsefulNotes/{{Ecuador}}, with popular folk bands such as Music/LosKjarkas.
The second half of theJames Bond Franchise/JamesBond film ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' is set here, and ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' takes place entirely here.
The second half of the
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There's also the whole coca leaf thing. The coca leaf has been historically a tradition of the Andean zone [[note]]Bolivia, mostly, but also Peru and northern Chile[[/note]], mainly because of its medicinal powers (the lack of air in the highlands provokes dizziness and other maladies, and chewing the coca leaf helps relieve them). As probably everyone knows, the coca leaves can be processed into cocaine, so the United States and other countries have tried to cut back or eliminate the growing of the leaves, which is at odds with the local people. Before being elected, Morales earned fame for his opposition to the pressure the US imposed on the Bolivian government to forcefully reduce cultivation of coca.
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There's also the whole coca leaf thing. The coca leaf has been historically a tradition of the Andean zone [[note]]Bolivia, mostly, but also Peru and northern Chile[[/note]], mainly because of its medicinal powers (the lack of air in the highlands provokes dizziness and other maladies, and chewing the coca leaf helps relieve them). As probably everyone knows, the coca leaves can be processed into cocaine, so the United States UsefulNotes/UnitedStates and other countries have tried to cut back or eliminate the growing of the leaves, which is at odds with the local people. Before being elected, Morales earned fame for his opposition to the pressure the US imposed on the Bolivian government to forcefully reduce cultivation of coca.
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Its landlocked position has made it one of the poorest Latin American countries, but its natural gas and lithium reserves could be useful in jumpstarting the economy, and the government has plans to do this to benefit the majority of the country.
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Its landlocked position has made it Bolivia one of the poorest [[UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica Latin American American]] countries, but its natural gas and lithium reserves could be useful in jumpstarting the economy, and the economy. The government has plans to do this to benefit the majority of the country.
