By Mareike Winchell, author of After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia In 2010, I was just beginning an ethnographic study of Quechua water activists in Cochabamba. At …
Read More >By Sarah Hines, author of Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia In January 2006, Evo Morales Ayma became the first indigenous president of Bolivia. He was elected in …
Read More >The story of Potosí, a virtual mountain of silver whose revelation made world news and became a secular icon after an Andean prospector named Diego Gualpa struck pay dirt high on its flanks in 1545.
Read More >In early February, Jim Shultz and Melissa Crane Draper, coeditors of Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Globalization and directors of the Democracy Center, embarked on a month-long, coast-to-coast book …
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