Ahh, La Paz. This is now my fourth time arriving in this fair city so I figured it deserved mention. There are give or take a million people who claim residency in La Paz and its uphill counterpart, El Alto. Not including El Alto, most of these people are stuffed into a valley with steep walls and a mix of colonial cobble and indigenous resourcefulness. I have spent altogether a couple weeks in this place but still haven´t quite wrapped my brain around it. However, as I am unable to refrain from doing so, below are some contrived observations and sweeping generalizations: In sharp contrast to the states, the further uphill you go the poorer the people get. Starting in El Alto, you have the have-nots: have-not a door, have-not four walls, have-not enough food, have-not
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