Political risk in the mining sector
Oruro, Bolivia sits on the High Andean Plain 180 km south-east of La Paz. As the sun rose over this bucolic community of miners on 9 February, 2007, soldiers of the Bolivian Army were amassing at a nearby tin smelter. The formation of approximately two-hundred
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