In 1809, the “Liberator”, Simon Bolivar, (Bolivia’s namesake) began the battle for independence.After the Spanish defeat in 1824, Bolivia finally gained its hard-fought freedom in 1825. Typical of a new, upstart country, political instability, coups, countercoups and rewritten constitutions were commonplace, as numerous leaders tried to reform the country.

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