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Abstract: In the year 2000 the first Water War was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The government had just signed a contract with Aguas del Tunari, a company of the Bechtel Corporation, to administrate the water supply of the city of Cochabamba and its close surroundings. However, since the company started […]

Land means different things to different people and different countries handle the problem in very diverse ways. While it is a fact that land rights are extremely important in South America, in Bolivia they are an issue that has taken our government over 60 years to address. However, in Bolivia […]

The questions in Ulrike Reinhard’s article about democracy´s challenge in taking action to lessen the impact of climate change are targeted at those countries that actually have policies on CO2 emissions. Bolivia, as a very much smaller producer of CO2 is not addressing this particular problem and, as it is […]

From the Middle East to South America, rising food prices fuel social and political unrest. A look at Egypt and Bolivia.