In Bolivia, more than half of the population—around 5.2 million people—live in poverty, and 2.7 million of those people live in extreme poverty. This data was contained in a 2011 report about human development from the United Nations Development Program, presented yesterday in the Bolivian foreign ministry. It recommended that Bolivia improve its policies against [...]

A new accord between the Bolivian government and the Public University of El Alto (UPEA) has set forth that the government will contribute Bs. 70,000,000 per year (or $10 million) towards the university’s budget. The University rector Dámaso Quispe said that with this convetion, “the conflicts have ended,” and promised to end their roadblocks. The [...]

Yesterday, students, faculty, and staff of the El Alto Public University marched from El Alto to La Paz to demand more funding. Today, the administrative management of the Bolivian road authority is demanding that rector of the school, Damaso Quispe, and four university leaders pay for damages that occurred during the march.. Forty-five people were [...]

In Cochabamba every month on average 48 children are reported missing according the the Human Trafficking division of the Bolivian police unit FELCC. In the nine months of 2011, 437 were reported missing in Cochabamba alone according the Human Trafficking director Rocío Rivas. The majority of these cases involve girls between the ages of 12 [...]

Yesterday President Evo Morales received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Havana for his “work fighting for dignity of the oppressed peoples of Latin America,” said Morales. Morales is in Cuba before continuing on to New York for a meeting of the Organization of American States. Morales spoke about the fight of Latin [...]

Yesterday President Morales spoke out against Bolivia’s universities and specifically against the Universidad Mayor de San Simón (UMSS) while attending the inauguration of the inauguration of the Casimiro Huanca Quechua Indigenous Bolivian University in the small jungle town of Chimore. Morales complained of decadence in the university system and excessive partying among students. “What kind [...]

In October 70 professionals from the Bolivian Space Agency will travel to China for a training on how to operate the Tupac Katari satellite that Bolivia has purchased from China. The satellite will be put in orbit in the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014 and will cost Bolivia $295 million dollars, $255 million [...]

Yesterday, radio Radio Erbol hosted its 6th annual Children’s Races in La Paz’s Hernando Siles stadium. The races featured hundreds of children from the ages of 9 to 12 from all over the country competing in the La Paz’s withering altitude of 3,637 meters (11,932 feet). The respective girls and boys winner were Blanca Barreto [...]

Conflict broke out this morning between rural teachers and police when officers tried to break up blockades on the La Paz-Oruro highway. Television reports state that police threw tear gas at demonstrators who responded with…

Relations between the Movement to Socialism government and the country’s largest labor union have hit an all-time low today. The union (COB) bussed its members to La Paz yesterday and surrounded the Bolivian federal government buildings in a giant march, battling police and launching thunderous explosives (petardos). The COB was infuriated when the Bolivian government [...]