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Abstract: In Bolivia, the forced austerity is poverty. Poverty in a very rich country, rich in minerals, oil and its people, but a long history of mishandling of the public finances has led us to a deeply divided society. Our current president however, gave a different tone to things in 2006 […]

  Abstract: Since the closing in 2008 of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act, ATPDEA, Bolivia’s textile industry has fallen to pieces. The biggest company of them all, Ametex, was the most visibly affected, reducing exportations to less than a half and thereby leaving thousands of workers unemployed. […]

Abstract: European migrations since the sixteenth century provoked a world wide movement of men, women, objects, fabrics, ideas, fashion. In colonial Bolivia indians were prohibited from using Spanish clothings in order to maintain the social order. However, in the eighteenth century women from indigenous descent but already mixed raced transformed […]

Abstract: La Paz and El Alto cities produce 27% of the daily garbage in Bolivia. Every day in these cities, specially at night, women and their children go out to look for the residues from homes and offices in order to separate and classify organic waste from plastic bottles, cardboard, […]

Abstract: Fighting for our rights, for basic services, for fair wages, for developing the country avoiding the mistakes the first world has made is a daily thing for us Bolivians. This daily fight makes us politically aware and very active and I don’t know if we could live without such a […]