La Paz, Jan 29, 2025 (AFP) - Facing Bolivia's economic crunch with toy houses, fake banknotes

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2025-01-29

For a month every year, thousands of Bolivians throng the stalls of an unusual market in La Paz, shopping for tiny toy houses and wads of fake cash -- substitutes for the real-life objects their hearts desire. Customers of the Alasita market believe the trinkets, "blessed" by shamans, will somehow pave the way for the real thing. This year, with Bolivia in economic and political turmoil, few items have been as popular as stacks of worthless, pape......

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