How rain turns a salt desert into the world’s largest mirror in Bolivia | World News

[ad_1] The Salar de Uyuni – the contiguous remnants of an ancient lake, covering more than 10,000 square kilometres in the Andes of Bolivia, South America – has now become a vast and flat white salt pan. In the rainy season, when water collects on the impervious crystalline crust of the salt pan and creates […]

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Who is Rodrigo Paz? Centrist senator wins Bolivia presidency, ending decades of leftist rule

[ad_1] Centrist Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday, defeating conservative rival Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, as the country’s worst economic crisis in a generation helped propel the end of nearly two decades of leftist rule. Paz, a senator from the Christian Democratic Party, won 54.5% of the vote, beating Quiroga’s 45.5%, according to early […]

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