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Bolivians (Spanish: Bolivianos) are people identified with the country of Bolivia.This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Bolivians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Bolivian.
White Bolivians, also known as Caucasian Bolivians, are Bolivians who have total or predominantly European or West Asian ancestry (formerly called criollos or castizos in the viceregal era), most notably from Spain, and to a lesser extent, Germany, Italy and Croatia.
Thousands of Brazilians who live on Bolivian territory near the border with Brazil are suffering the threat of banishment because Bolivian President Evo Morales, under the claim of guaranteeing his country sovereignty, wants to settle 4,000 peasant families from La Paz and Cochabamba, onto 200,000 hectares located in the bordering region.
Bolivian Argentines (Quechua: Buliwyanu Arhintinapi, Spanish: Boliviano-argentinos), sometimes called Boligauchos, are Argentine citizens of predominantly or total Bolivian descent or Bolivia-born people who immigrated to Argentina.
The Indigenous peoples in Bolivia or Native Bolivians (Spanish: Bolivianos Nativos) are Bolivians who have predominantly or total Amerindian ancestry. They constitute anywhere from 20 to 60% of Bolivia's population of 11,306,341, [2] [better source needed] depending on different estimates, and depending notably on the choice Mestizo being available as an answer in a given census, in which case ...
An Afro-Bolivian child from Coroico. MtDNA haplogroups and continental ancestry based on AIMs.Samples are from Yungas (left) and Tocaña (right). Their move occurred during the year 1827 (although its enforcement being postponed to 1851), [10] The indigenous Aymara people and mestizos lived in the Yungas before the Afro-Bolivians.
The most dramatic change undertaken by the Sanchez de Lozada government was the capitalization program, under which investors acquired 50% ownership and management control of public enterprises, such as the Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) oil corporation, telecommunications system, electric utilities, and others.
Bolivians started coming to Brazil in small numbers during the 1950s, with current levels of immigration beginning in the 1980s. The numbers vary according to the source, but it is a fact that the information given by the media is very different from academic and official estimates.