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Bolivia Twice a week the use of motor vehicles is suspended in the streets "Rodriguez" and "Avenida Buenos Aires". There are wooden, cardboard and plastics stands that sell vegetables and fruits along these sidewalks. The same as it is happening in streets or squares of thousands of cities in the world, in La Paz there is a market twice a week. Two wide streets are stopped to traffic where goods are exposed on the floor. Vegetables, fruits and cereals are sold along the sidewalk next to buildings. The dozens of stalls are regulated by women, a fact to highlight due to the importance given to women in the work of agriculture. Agriculture in Bolivia is like a family business and the woman is the one who owns and works the land, for subsequent sale. This job has avoided thousands of families being poor.