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Bolivians gathered in the mountains and city viewpoints to celebrate the Andean New Year, a tradition rooted in pre-Hispanic ...
After centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a social and political struggle that would change the country ...
For Bolivia’s more than 4 million indigenous people, support for Morales appeared to pay off. The poverty rate dropped from 59.9 percent in 2006 to 36.4 percent last year. Access for ...
but at the cost of dispossessing Indigenous peoples. “The recent opening of Bolivia to the carbon market is the background for the surprising agreements between the representatives of the fake ...
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – In Bolivia, the killing of an Indigenous leader and the ensuing detention of another Indigenous man for being allegedly responsible for the crime have mobilized members of ...
While more than half of Bolivia's 8 million people identified themselves as indigenous in census figures, many are in fact of mixed race and no longer speak Indian languages or live in traditional ...
and “distorted the information saying that it was the Indigenous people who set fire [to the area], but it’s not like that.” A thick smoke settled in La Paz and cities across Bolivia in late ...
Around 200 groups of Indigenous Peoples currently live in voluntary isolation and initial contact. They reside in remote forests rich in natural resources in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador ...
the effort to reimagine the state’s relationship with Indigenous peoples is likely to continue. As it does, Chile might look to the experiences of Bolivia, which officially became the ...
It was last updated on 7 February 2023 A country of extremes, landlocked Bolivia is the highest and most isolated country in South America. It has the largest proportion of indigenous people ...
Mamio Serato was born and raised here, leaving only briefly to attend university in Beni, Bolivia. Like other Indigenous people of his generation, Mamio Serato received two forms of education ...