Shortly after the October 12th elections last year which granted President Evo Morales a third term in office with over 60 percent of the vote, I visited the government’s Vice Ministry of ...

A chronology of key events: 1538 - Spanish conquer Bolivia, which becomes part of the Vice-royalty of Peru. 1545 - Silver Mountain, or Cerro Rico, discovered at Potosi in the southwest, providing ...

The following is an excerpt from The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia (AK Press, 2019) After centuries of colonial domination and a ...

For the first time in two decades, the economically ailing South American nation will be run by a center-right capitalist. Bolivians on Sunday elected a pro-business center-right senator as their new ...

Protests against the recent arrest of right-wing Bolivian opposition politician and Santa Cruz governor Luis Fernando Camacho continued this week in the Santa Cruz district, stoking fears that Bolivia ...

India's Jindal Steel and Power scrapped plans Tuesday to invest 2.1 billion dollars in a Bolivian mining project and blamed the country’s “non-friendly business attitude” for the deal's collapse. The ...

This excerpt from The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia (AK Press, 2019) was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media ...