Education workers from across Bolivia held protests in La Paz on Friday to demand a bigger budget for their sector and to reject the new education plan. It is their third week of demonstrations calling for more teachers for public schools, a higher education budget, and the rejection of a...
Restoring macro stability and boosting growth will require carefully-crafted policies that will help mitigate discontent Latin America’s economies held up well last year despite the shocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and global interest rate hikes. In 2022, the region’s economy...
From the 60s onwards, a chosen family of queer performers used Bolivia’s street carnivals to flaunt a camped-up, Andean drag. For all its opulence, the look was one steeped in socio-political defiance, acting like a glitter-splashed affront to the country’s military dictatorship. Clicking...
For five generations, Héctor Basilio Choquehuanca Poma and his family have lived on the slopes of the imposing Tuni Condoriri mountains in the Bolivian Andes. In this often-unforgiving land, Basilio’s kin have long made ends meet by raising llamas. But in recent years that work has become...
In some remote, mostly Indigenous communities across Bolivia, the COVID-19 vaccine was met with a mixture of rumour and distrust. To turn the tide on vaccine hesitancy and increase acceptance, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in collaboration with the Bolivian Ministry of...
