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Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Toulouse le Mirail, 1990. / Includes abstracts in English and French. Includes bibliographical references (leaves clix-cclxxxii, 3rd group) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-292)

Tesis de grado para obtener el diploma academico de Licendiatura en Biología, Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Facultad Ciencias y Tecnologia Carrera Biologia. / Abstract in English and Spanish.

Tesis de Grado, Universidad Catloica Boliviana "San Pablo" Unidad Academica Campesina Tihuanaco, Carrera Ingenieria Zootechnica. / Abstract in Spanish and English.

Tesis de grado para obtener el titulo de Licenciatura en Biologia, Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Facultad de Ciencias Y Tecnologia, Carrera de Biologia. / Abstract in Spanish and English.

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Throughout Latin America the conservative terms established at the outset of democratization, which often limited the scope of democracy for the preservation of stability, have been exhausted. Coinciding with the emergence of the Latin American left, the initial terms of democracy are being redefined through the reconstitution of the state and the renegotiation of the role of the state in the economy. These phenomena are presently and precipitously unfolding in Bolivia. Bolivia’s failure to establish substantively democratic institutions resulted in a political-economy orientation incongruent to the preferences of the electorate. The electorate was forced to push their interests by means of increasingly assertive social movements, which coalesced, forming viable leftist party alternatives. Seeking to redefine the parameters of the state, the actualization of the left’s nationalization agenda reversed decades-old policies of privatization that had been maintained through pacted executive legislative relations. In redefining Bolivian democracy, the left has confronted a resistant opposition, which has thrust the country into a political impasse, the outcome of which has yet to be determined. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

En la costa de Atacama, a unos pocos kilómetros al sur de Tocopilla, aún se divisan los cimientos derruidos y ruinosos de las casas, la iglesia y las calles de Cobija, ahora una ciudad fantasma. Los restos de Cobija evocan el esfuerzo de hombres y mujeres que durante el siglo XIX convirtieron la costa desértica en un lugar lleno de vida. En la actualidad, una jauría de perros habita la zona alta de la ciudad y en el área próxima a la costa aún se reconoce los vestigios de un fuerte en cuyos restos rompen las olas. En los esbozos de las antiguas casas emergen habitaciones de material liviano, changuerías de pescadores, que aprovechan parte de los muros de adobe que aún resisten los insultos de un maremoto, el tiempo y el abandono. El puerto de Lamar en Cobija, se constituyó como un proyecto político de la reciente Bolivia cuyo objetivo radicó en ser una puerta de entrada al mundo moderno capitalista luego de la pérdida de Arica. En dicho contexto este enclave fue un centro de despliegue del sistema protocapitalista en la zona durante el periodo republicano −aunque siempre con un sustrato colonial fundante−, asociado principalmente a la explotación de materias primas como el cobre, el guano y el salitre.

Ten species of coralsnakes are known from Bolivia, and the ranges of an additional four approach Bolivia's northeastern border. Ranges of several species are expanded to accommodate recently collected material. Coralsnakes with characteristics thought to be diagnostic of Micrurus tricolor do not occur in Bolivia, and this species is considered to be a junior synonym of Micrurus pyrrhocryptus. Micrurus frontifasciatus is returned to the synonymy of M. lemniscatus. Some specimens previously referred to M. frontifasciatus, are described as the new species Micrurus serranus, which is apparently restricted to dry intermontane valleys of the Andes above 1200 m. Putative subspecies of M. spixii occur in sympatry within Bolivia and differ from one another by a suite of morphological characters. Accordingly, we recognize M. spixii and M. obscurus as distinct species. Characteristics used to define M. s. princeps appear to be clinal, and this taxon is considered to be synonymous with M. obscurus. Micrurus corallinus, M. ibiboboca, and M. tschudii do not occur in Bolivia, despite earlier reports to the contrary. Claims that melanism increases with age in some species are not supported by our observations.