President Morales Expels USAID on Charges of Interference

Rick Kearns
May 03, 2013
For the second time since 2008, Bolivian President Evo Morales has said he would expel the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), charging the agency with “pol...

Bolivia Celebrates Coca Gamble Success in the UN

Sara Shahriari
January 16, 2013
Thousands of coca farmers rallied in Bolivia Monday, January 14 to celebrate the country's recent victory in the United Nations, the latest chapter in the Andean nation's quest to ...

Evo Morales and Ancient Tradition Sets Sail for Bolivian Solstice on Lake Titicaca

Sara Shahriari
December 21, 2012
Bolivia is marking December 21, the summer solstice south of the equator, in grand style...

New Indigenous Community Justice Sanctions Criticized in Bolivia

Rick Kearns
December 11, 2012
One indigenous community in Bolivia made headlines in early November after it was announced that, in their district, thieves would have a hand cut off after the 3 rd or 4 th arrest...

The Cat and the Rattlesnake: A Visit to Samaipata, Bolivia

Sara Shahriari
November 25, 2012
In the hot Bolivian lowland hills that stretch toward the Amazon rainforest, indigenous peoples began to carve a giant red-hued rock...

Bolivia Enacts New Law for Mother Earth

Sara Shahriari
October 26, 2012

“Mother Earth is the living dynamic system made up of the indivisible community of all living systems and living

Coca Leaf Cultivation Drops in Bolivia as US Criticizes anti-Drug Efforts

Sara Shahriari
October 08, 2012
The 'sacred leaf,' as coca is often called by indigenous Bolivians, has been cultivated in the Andean region for thousands of years...

Bolivian President Evo Morales Protects Pink Dolphins With New Law

ICTMN Staff
September 21, 2012
Bolivia’s armed forces have been given a new job not usually awarded to the military...

TIPNIS Divided as Some Communities Block Government Road Consultation

Sara Shahriari
September 19, 2012
More than fifteen communities in the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park, known by its Spanish acronym TIPNIS, are blocking government access to their towns...

Feather and Thread: Bolivia’s National Ethnology and Folklore Museum

Sara Shahriari
August 26, 2012

Bolivia's National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF) sits on a narrow street in downtown La Paz.

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