‘We’re in danger of extinction’: can Bolivia’s ‘water people’ survive a rising tide of salt and migration?

I n the small town of Chipaya, everything is dry. Only a few people walk along the sandy streets, and many houses look abandoned – some secured with a padlock. The wind is so strong that it forces you to close your eyes. Chipaya lies on Bolivia’s Altiplano, 35 miles from the Chilean border. The vas...

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