Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Bustamante
President

(pronounced "gahn-ZAH-low SAHN-chess day low-ZAH-dah boo-stah-MAHN-tay")

"We can't be fighting each other and misunderstanding each other, because the country is in crisis."

The Republic of Bolivia is a landlocked country in the center of South America. Bordering Brazil to the north and northeast, Paraguay to the southeast, Chile and Peru to the west, and Argentina to the south, Bolivia is the least developed country in South America. Bolivia's 1,098,580 sq km (424,164 sq mi) occupy a large segment of the Andes highlands and a part of the Amazon jungle. As of 2002, its 8,445,134 inhabitants are mostly of Quechua (30%) and Aymara (25%) descent. Creoles, or mestizos (30%), and people of European descent (15%) account for the rest. Although there are three official languages, Spanish is used primarily in large cities...