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Good Friday Procession, La Paz

Behold, the Bolivian Navy! Bolivia still maintains a "sovereign claim" to access to the sea, which it lost in one of its many disastrous wars with its neighbours. Its old coastline is now part of Chile, and Bolivia's Navy has not much to do apart from patrol Lake Titicaca, not, as may be assumed, in case of a Peruvian marine attack, but to remind the world that it once used to have a coastline.

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Uploaded on April 28, 2007
Taken on April 27, 2007