Bolivian Exodus to Spain

Every day, thousands of people pack the airport in Bolivia’s eastern city of Santa Cruz to wave goodbye to friends and relatives.

The people they are saying goodbye to are mostly traveling to Spain under rules that allow tourists from Bolivia to enter Spain without visas. But the travelers are in search less of a vacation than of a better way of life.Bolivia, land-locked and poverty-stricken, has been in the midst of an exodus of its workers since August, when the Spanish government said it may start requiring Bolivian tourists to get a visa before coming to Spain. Click here.

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