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A truck descends the road connecting the city of La Paz to the Coroico in the North Yungas December 21, 2005 in the Yungas, Bolivia. Referred to as the Worlds Most Dangerous Road (WMDR) by the Inter-American Development Bank, the road, a narrow dirt track, descends nearly 11,800 ft. in just 40 miles. With no other options currently available, vehicles are forced to drive it, resulting in hundreds of annual deaths as trucks, buses and passenger cars fall thousands of feet down. Bolivia, the poorest country in Latin America, has just elected Evo Morales as President, bringing a sense of hope that infrastructure and living conditions will finally improve. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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