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 [...]

March 30th, 2011 marks the one year anniversary of Jaime Escalante’s death, yet many Bolivians and foreigners alike are unaware of the remarkable legacy left by this humble Aymara man who received admiring visits from the likes of US President Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not many people realize that one of the most famous [...]

After a day of student marches and clashes with police that left one officer severly burned and 12 students arrested, the Bolivian univerisity systems have won an accord with the government regarding health care. In Bolivia university students and faculty have their own free health care system (the SSU) that maintains is own hospitals and [...]

From March 14th – 20th, the cities of La Paz, Oruro and Cochabamba will host the Bolivian International Poetry Festival for the second consecutive year. The special guests are 8 poets from…

According to a new report by the STI-HIV/AIDS program of the Health Ministry, new figures show over 600 new cases of HIV/AIDS in the country, 45 of those cases consisting of minors…

Drafts of the Avelino Siñani-Elizardo Pérez Education Law, currently in development, obtained by La Prensa newspaper show the government’s plans to institutionalize “anti-imperialist and anti-patriarchal” curricula…