Bolivia’s second largest lake has been completely dried out since 2015. This is due to global warming, which is accelerating evaporation – already very high at 4,000 metres altitude – as well as the mining industry, which consumes a significant amount of water. The Uru Murato people are trying to [...]Read the full article
Bolivia continues to face significant challenges in addressing its digital divide. Although progress has been made with extending the fibre optic network, large numbers of people are still unconnected and digitally illiterate.Read the full article
The Maricas Bolivia Movement, which has been occupying the media and the public space for over 10 years, fights not only against homophobia and transphobia in Bolivian society, Indigenous communities included, but also against white hegemony in the social imaginary of the institutional LGBTQI+ [...]Read the full article
While workplace childcare policies are relatively new in Bolivia, the country is making progress, for example by promoting breastfeeding rooms and day-care facilities. However, such policies are of little use when employers fail to respect labour [...]Read the full article
Víctor Báez Mosqueira :For almost a year now, Bolivians have been enduring massacres, repression, detentions and exile. According the Defensoría del Pueblo, the de facto government “has committed crimes against humanity.” A country crying out for a return to the rule of law will finally get a chance to vote on 18 [...]Read the full article
The current political upheaval in Bolivia threatens to undo the reforms undertaken by Evo Morales over the last 13 years, as well as the economic turnaround promoted by the former president.Read the full article
Mathilde Dorcadie:The critical state of our common natural heritage is all of our responsibility. The rainforest is burning because we’ve let it happen.Read the full article
The ‘lithium triangle’, consisting of salt flats in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, is home to major reserves of the world’s supply of lithium. The mineral is set to play an important role in the transition to renewable energy, but its extraction negatively impacts indigenous communities and [...]Read the full article
There is a broad census on the "end of the progressive political cycle" in Latin America, but what assessment can be made of the 15 years dominated by governments calling themselves progressive?Read the full article
Soy is the main export and source of foreign currency in Argentina. But it is also a source of controversy in the areas where it is spreading, such as in Cordoba, where citizen mobilisation has put an end to Monsanto’s plans to open a plant in the [...]Read the full article
By becoming the country with the lowest legal working age in the world, Bolivia has opted to put certain economic realities before the future of its childrenRead the full article