Bolivia’s history has been shaped in large part by its geography of jungles and high mountains, and in modern times by cocaine.

One soldier was killed and eight others wounded after a clash between security forces and villagers who had held hundreds of Bolivian and foreign tourists in a remote Andean village, the government said.

US-educated millionaire Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada has been chosen as Bolivia’s president for his second, non-consecutive term.