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Articles about Bolivia, ordered by date. Open 'Bolivia' in the New Internationalist magazine app for Android or iOS mobile devices.

Illustration by Sarah John

Letter from Cochabamba

Working children have more pressing concerns than the law, discovers Amy Booth.

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NI 499 - African village - January, 2017
499 - January, 2017
Illustration by Sarah John.

The kind and the curious

Amy Booth finds her feet – and friends – in Bolivia.

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NI 498 - The coming war on China - December, 2016
498 - December, 2016
Pujarini Sen works for Greenpeace India, which helped to set up a community renewables project in Dharnai, India.

Power to the people?

Community micro-grids, government-controlled energy, or both? Three experts thrash out the options.

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NI 480 - The great green energy grab - March, 2015
480 - March, 2015
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Re-introducing... Evo Morales

Richard Swift welcomes the Bolivian president's third term in office.

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NI 478 - NGOs - Do they help? - December, 2014
478 - December, 2014
Clockwise from top left: Traditional communities have become more organized in recent years – Victor Ara is an elected leader of one in Potosí; this woman carrying the wiphala – a flag of indigenous unity – waits for Evo Morales to speak at a rally in Santa Cruz; at more than 4,000 metres above sea level, El Alto is probably the highest and largest open-air market in the world; musician Adrián Villanueva (right) with a young relative in his La Paz home.Photos: Vanessa Baird

Country Profile: Bolivia

A miner, pick in one hand, rifle in the other, adorns many main squares of Bolivia’s highland mining communities, symbolizing the country’s tradition of radical social movements.

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NI 467 - Time to rethink disability - November, 2013
467 - November, 2013
Photo by: David Mercado / Reuters

Where are they now? Domitila Barrios de Chungara

The leader of the Housewives’ Committee in Bolivia 1979.

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NI 460 - What has development done for me? - March, 2013
460 - March, 2013
Summit different: report from Cochabamba Ben Powless

Summit different: report from Cochabamba

After Copenhagen’s dismal failure, social movements from all over the world gathered in Bolivia – here's what happened.

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010
433 - June, 2010

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
African village January, 2017
The coming war on China December, 2016
The great green energy grab March, 2015
NGOs - Do they help? December, 2014
Time to rethink disability November, 2013
What has development done for me? March, 2013
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
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