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The article responds to the Secrets of Transformation multimedia series, a joint project of Bertelsmann Transformation Index and Deutsche Welle.  Transformational is without a doubt the best word to define the past decade in Bolivia. Changes began even before Evo Morales became the country’s (and South America’s) first indigenous president, as people campaigned for changes […]

Abstract: Bolivia is in need of economic growth and the presente governmet is very aware of it so they have thought of a new way to create economic growth by maintaining traditional production systems and making a stand in regards to sustainability and the protection of mother earth. However, seven […]

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 […]

  On July 2nd, Bolivian president Evo Morales prepared to board his country’s presidential airplane (FAB001) en route back to La Paz after participating in a presidential summit in Moscow. Well into the flight, he was informed that France, Portugal, Italy and Spain – where the plane was due to […]

You can’t win at the negotiation table what you lost on the battlefield. But you can sell gas to the people who beat you. On April 24, the  International Court of Justice at The Hague heard the Plurinational State of Bolivia’s petition against Chile over the 250 miles of coastline that the […]