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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1999, Feb. 9 | |
| Bolivian and Brazilian leaders inaugurated a natural gas pipeline between Rio Grande, Bolivia and São Paulo, Brazil. The pipeline was 1,830 miles long and was expected to net $1.6 billion for Bolivia over a period of twenty years. | 1 |
| 2000, April 26 | |
| A strike by the Workers Confederation and a plan for increased water rates incited riots throughout Bolivia. The government of former military dictator and current president Banzer quickly suppressed the insurrections. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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