Mr Morales was speaking on Bolivia's "Day of the Sea", when it commemorates its defeat by Chile in the 19th Century War of the Pacific.

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But walking in Bolivia is also an experience in diversity: one day you can be in snow-covered mountains and the next you might descend through moss-strewn cloud forests to jungle lowlands.

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President EVO MORALES (President of Bolivia): (Through Translator) We came here on this historic day, an important day, to comply with the feelings, the proposals of the Bolivian people, which is the naturalization of the natural resources, the hydrocarbons.

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