Bolivia
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LIFE
Bolivia’s Second Chances Are Made of Bread, Metal, and Thread
At three thousand nine hundred meters above sea level, just outside La Paz, a place designed for punishment smells, unexpectedly,…
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LIFE
Bolivia’s Freestyle Behind Bars Program Gives Incarcerated Youth a Second Chance
At Qalauma on Bolivia's Altiplano, teenage voices once reduced to case files now fight for air through rhyme. A prison-yard…
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ANALYSIS
Bolivia's Rodrigo Paz Faces a Nation on Empty: Gas, Dollars, and Trust Running Out
Sworn in Saturday, President-elect Rodrigo Paz inherits a country short on fuel, foreign currency, and patience. Promising a diplomatic thaw…
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ECONOMY
Bolivia’s Mountain of Silver Stands on the Edge of Collapse
At 15,600 feet above sea level, Potosí's Cerro Rico—the "Rich Hill" that once financed empires—still glints with promise, but every…
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AMERICAS
Bolivia’s Currency Crisis and the Battle Between Two Rights
After two decades of MAS dominance and three years of currency freefall, Bolivians face an unfamiliar choice: two conservatives offering…
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AMERICAS
Titicaca’s Cry: How Neglect and Pollution Are Suffocating Bolivia’s Sacred Lake
In the world's highest navigable lake, silence has replaced the slap of nets. Along Lake Titicaca—the sacred mirror shared by…
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ECONOMY
Bolivia’s Gold Forwards Buy Time but Bind the Next Government
Bolivia has turned bullion into breathing space, raising nearly a billion dollars through gold forwards and hedges to stave off…
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ECONOMY
China’s Springboard in Latin America Forces Washington to Rethink Development Finance
Across the Andes and Pacific, China is laying ports, railways, and shipping routes that bind Latin America to its orbit.…
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ECONOMY
Bolivia’s Lithium Gamble Tests Water, Trust, and the Future of Uyuni
Beneath the world’s largest salt flat lies enough lithium to power the energy transition. But as contracts race through Congress…
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LIFE
A Lifetime of Money Becomes a Museum for the Bolivian People
To mark Bolivia's bicentennial, a family in Cochabamba has opened a door onto 8,000 years of value—stones, salt, coca leaves,…
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