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TikTok and a viral hit drives contraband car craze

High in the Bolivian Altiplano, Challapata is where the road from La Paz splits: one way to Potosí and the other to Uyuni and the salt flats. It seems an unremarkable place; tourists stream through without even realising. But Bolivians know it to be home to the country’s biggest contraband car fair, a hub in a trade network reaching from Japan to the Bolivian Amazon.

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