29 Dec, 2016 | Jet de Kort

Photo: Jet de KortCode-switching between Aymara and SpanishIn the blazing sun, about 150 inhabitants of Wichi Wichi, a village on the banks of Lake Titicaca, gather at the local plaza. Every Saturday...

21 Nov, 2016 | Jet De Kort

Photos: Jet De KortCommuters Line Up to Go to the CityIt’s 6:30 am when the cabins start moving at the teleférico station in Ciudad Satélite, a neighborhood in El Alto. People line up in the dew, wait...

21 Nov, 2016 | Adriana Murillo

Photo: Courtesy of Revolución JigoteTackling the Challenges of Urban Life in La Paz and Santa CruzWe've all struggled in the chaos of the cities of Bolivia. We’ve seen garbage in the streets, old buse...

21 Nov, 2016 | Cecilia Saavedra

Photos: William WroblewskiBolivia’s Metal SceneAt a metal concert, it’s easy to find friends, beer, brutal music, and cool performances. Among the numerous tattoos peeking out from under even more num...

21 Nov, 2016 | Jet de Kort

Illustration: Hugo L. CuellarBattling Human Trafficking in Bolivia‘We invite you to a briefing about job opportunities in France’s most prestigious hotel chain: "Hôtel Fleur de l'Ixora". We are lookin...

24 Oct, 2016 | Melody Chan

Photos: Melody ChanThe Shoe-Shine Boys of La Paz.In bright, crowded streets, La Paz’s lustrabotas wear dark clothes to blend in. It’s much too sunny for heavy black masks and jackets, but they choose...

24 Oct, 2016 | Izabela Wlodarczyk

Photo: William WroblewskiA One-Sided Love Affair That Was Never Meant to LastI cannot really explain how this love came to be. What I can tell you is the story of how we met and let you decide it for...

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...