"Two sticks of dynamite and a bag of ammonium nitrate, please"
September 23rd 2012 You'd be forgiven for never having heard of Potosí. Perched at the dizzying altitude of 4,000 metres, Potosí is a bustling but modest town, a cold, windy and far-flung place on the edge of the altiplano - a very long way away from Bolivia's modern nerve centres of La Paz and Santa Cruz.
It was not always thus - very far from it. In 17th century Spain, everyone knew about Potosí. For i
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