24 Oct, 2016 | Alexis Galanis

Photo: Alexis GalanisThe Struggles of Recognizing Legal Pluralism in BoliviaBlaring trumpets and crashing drums reverberate through the white walls of Sucre. On Calle Dalence, hundreds of people, ador...

03 Oct, 2016 | Eduardo Baptista

Illustration: Mauricio WildeA Korean Organization’s Growing Relationship with La PazIt is no secret that, by definitions set by the United Nations, Bolivia is one of the most ‘underdeveloped’ countrie...

26 Sep, 2016 | Gabrielle Mcguiness

A Watershed Law for Transgender BoliviansOver the past few years, the global understanding of gender within cultural and social spheres has advanced with the increasing presence of transgender issues...

26 Sep, 2016 | María Mayböck

Photo: María MayböckA Peek Into the Past Through Milky EyesThey are almost invisible, unless they are part of our families. But the elderly are still a force to be reckoned with. They are many, t...

26 Sep, 2016 | Jacob Klein

Photo: Ellen WeaverAn Exhaustively Happy Philosophy ‘¡Actitud, Cebra! ¡Acción, Cebra! ¡Espíritu,Cebra!’, shouted a herd of students, dressed to the neck in zebra suits, holding long snouted hats in th...

28 Aug, 2016 | Madeleine Pollard

Photo: Madeleine PollardYoshi Homna’s Revolutionary Plan to Clear Uyuni’s Peripheral Wasteland‘Close your eyes if you see any rubbish; we are really trying to work on it,’ pleads our tour guide with a...

28 Aug, 2016 | Ellen Weaver

Illustration: Oscar ZallesThe tension between sustainability and mining in BoliviaGutted to the point of near collapse, the once silver-lined entrails of Cerro Rico, emblematic of prosperity in the Ne...

28 Aug, 2016 | Maria Mayböck

How Harry Potter is Saving the Book World Again‘The average Bolivian doesn’t read,’ says Sebastian Antezana, author of La Toma Manuscrito,  which won the “Premio Nacional de Novela” in 2008. Ther...

20 Jul, 2016 | Isabel Cocker

Photo: Iván Rodriguez PetkovicThe role of museums in conserving national identity‘Our heritage is in information, in making our own society conscious of the place that it occupies in history and in th...

20 Jul, 2016 | Laetitia Nappert-Rosales

Once young people left Bolivia to pursue their dream; now they are coming back to find it.Photos: Laetitia Nappert-Rosales‘Something that started growing in my mind was the idea of a Bolivian Dream.’...

20 Jul, 2016 | María Fernandez

Photo: Alexandra Meleán AnzoleagaThe Campaign that Turned La Paz into a wonderful CityWhen Raúl Pérez first heard of the New Seven Wonders Cities contest, he figured nominating his city was quite a lo...

22 Jun, 2016 | Karina Guzmán

The Local Road to AdulthoodIllustration: Richard Sanchez JaillitaGrowing up is never easy. Around the globe, we have witnessed the so-called Peter Pan generation increasingly put-off adulthood and ref...

15 May, 2016 | Ruben Mamani Paco

Photo: William WroblewskiUsually the rainy season on the Bolivian altiplano – the arid high plateau that stretches from northern Chile and Argentina, through western Bolivia and to southern Peru – com...

15 May, 2016 | Karina Guzmán

Indigenous Artisans Create SolidarityPhoto Courtesy of Artecampo and CIDACAsk backpackers who have spent any amount of time straddling the spine of the Andes what they remember about Bolivia, and they...

15 May, 2016 | Karina Guzman

Almost Entirely Preventable, the Disease Still Takes Its TollPhoto: William WroblewskiNicolasa, an 84-year-old widow, says that she moved to Pucarani – a community 55 kilometres from La Paz – after ge...