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During the past decade, Bolivia twice experienced intense and prolonged political violence. In neither of those two periods, however, was the violence equally distributed across the country. In 2001–2002, violence was concentrated in the central valleys. Between 2006 and 2008, violence sprung up in both the eastern lowlands and western highlands. Why was this decade so violent for Bolivia? And why was that violence concentrated in particular regions, rather than spread uniformly across the country?
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Barndt, W.T. (2012). On the Brink of Violence: Work, Fear, and the State in the Bolivian Regions. In: Ascher, W., Mirovitskaya, N. (eds) Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America. Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272690_5
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