Editors Jimmy Lovaas and Jeff Landset discuss the protests spreading across Bolivia amid their worst economic crisis in decades, plus more on an election in Cyprus, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, talks on a U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal, and the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

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This episode includes work from Factal editors Jeff Landset, Alex Moore, Michael Archer, Joe Veyera, and Awais Ahmad. Produced and edited by Jimmy Lovaas. Music courtesy of Andrew Gospe. 

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