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Bolivia

Territory in western South America, ruled since 2009 by the Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
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Bolivia (Guarani: Mborivia, Quechua: Buliwya, Aymara: Wuliwya), officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Spanish: Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal economic and financial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales (tropical lowlands) a mostly flat region in the east of Bolivia.

Measures of Freedom

Bolivia | Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2016
2016: Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 68, Political Rights: 3, Civil Liberties: 3
"In 2015, lawmakers from the governing Movement for Socialism (MAS) took steps to change Bolivia's constitution so term limits would not prevent President Evo Morales from running for reelection in the presidential election set for 2019. The amendment passed the Plurinational Legislative Assembly in September, but it still needed to be ratified in a national referendum, which was expected to take place in early 2016."
Human Freedom Index [PDF], The Human Freedom Index 2016
2014: 6.98, Rank: 71, Personal Freedom: 7.62, Economic Freedom: 6.34, Democracy Index: 5.33
Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World
2014: 6.34, Rank: 122

The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Bolivia" as of 24 Sep 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

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