A mural in Potosi, Bolivia featuring Evo Morales, pictured in 2011. Morales led the leftwing Movement Towards Socialism to victory in 2006, and the party has dominated Bolivia's politics ever since.Photo: De Visu/Shutterstock

Political instruments

The Movement Towards Socialism has proved an enduring force in Bolivian politics, in spite of multiple setbacks. Olivia Arigho Stiles traces its history.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
Photo: Carlos Sánchez Navas

Southern Exposure: Carlos Sánchez Navas

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024

Country Profile: Bolivia

The photos, facts, and politics of Bolivia.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Former dictators Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia and Augusto Pinochet of Chile raise a salute on 8 February in the border town of Charaña. In 1971 Suarez came to power via a coup that overthrew president Juan José Torres who was later killed as part of Operation Condor.Photo: Reuters/Lucio Flores

The usual suspects

Those seeking justice for the survivors and victims of Bolivia’s dictatorships are still being stonewalled. Thomas Graham reports.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
A woman shouts slogan against the Bolivian government during a demonstration against increases to water rates in Cochabamba, April 2000.Photo: David Mercado/Reuters

De-privatizing the rain

How Bolivians beat a corporate water grab.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Photo: Rodrigo Cruz

Southern Exposure: Rodrigo Cruz

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Photo: Manuel Seoane

Southern Exposure: Manuel Seoane

Trend-setting cholitas in La Paz, clicked by Manuel Seoane.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
A member of the security forces in Sacaba, Cochabamba, on 15 November 2019, the day that nine people were massacred at a march in support of ousted president Evo Morales.Photo: Danilo Balderrama/Reuters

Democracy in Peril

Update from Bolivia by Amy Booth.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Waiting in vain: passengers at Clapham Junction, south London. According to a 2017 Legatum Institute poll 76 per cent of British passengers want the railways in public ownership.Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters

The efficiency myth

Heard the tale about the private sector always doing things better? Nick Dowson wonders why it still has believers.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018
Illustration: Sarah John

Farewell to the big village

In her final column writing from Bolivia, Amy Booth reflects on what Cochabamba has revealed to her – including about herself.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
Illustration: Sarah John

The weighted scales of justice

Being on the wrong side of suspicion can have extreme consequences where formal justice systems are not fully functional, realizes Amy Booth on a visit to a prison.

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NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018
Illustration by Sarah John

When the post doesn't come

Bolivians have had to get used to doing without postal services. In her Letter From Cochabamba, Amy Booth writes how they manage instead.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
A protester holds blood-stained images of government figures during a demonstration against the annulment of Law 180 in August 2017.Photo: James Brunker News / Alamy

Against mother nature

A highway project threatens indigenous peoples' reserves in Bolivia. Aldo Orellana Lopez reports.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Cochabamba fire.Illustration by Sarah John

Lights in the mountains

Not a sign of progress but a cause for alarm. Amy Booth reports from Cochabamba’s overlong dry season.

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
Illustration: Sarah John

Welcome to the jungle

Amy Booth goes to the back of beyond in Bolivia and hears of a surprising migration.

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
Illustration: Sarah John

When the lake ran dry

Amy Booth visits a Bolivian isolated indigenous community fallen on hard times, striving to keep their culture alive

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NI 503 - Homelessness - June, 2017
Illustration: Sarah John

'Over my dead body'

Bolivian democracy was won from the clutches of dictators. Amy Booth meets a frontline participant in the struggle.

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NI 502 - West Papua - Freedom in sight? - May, 2017
Illustration by Sarah John

Standstill - Letter from Cochabamba

Her travel plans thwarted, Amy Booth reflects on a very Bolivian way of drawing attention to grievances.

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NI 501 - Populism rises again - April, 2017
Illustration: Sarah John.

Water fights in a time of scarcity: the Bolivian Carnaval

Playing with water is controversial in a place with a history of water struggles like Cochabamba, writes Amy Booth.

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NI 500 - The exceptionally brave - 500th issue - March, 2017

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Election year September, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
How we stop big oil May, 2022
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
How we make poverty March, 2020
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
Homelessness June, 2017
West Papua - Freedom in sight? May, 2017
Populism rises again April, 2017
The exceptionally brave - 500th issue March, 2017
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