Everything Is Up for Discussion: A 40th Anniversary Conversation With Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Silvia Rvera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist, activist, and public intellectual who teaches at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres ...
El Alto: Mobilizing Block by Block
The city of El Alto, Bolivia, jumped to international headlines with the outbreak of the “Red October” uprising of 2003 ...
Bolivia’s Separatist Movement
“What we should do is simply and smoothly separate ourselves [from Bolivia].” One might assume these words were spoken by ...
The Roots of Rebellion, I. Insurgent Bolivia
The great anti-colonial indigenous insurrection of 1781 has haunted republican Bolivia since its founding in 1825. From their military encampment ...
The Roots of Rebellion, II. Reclaiming the Nation
The U.S. government allows the Bolivian government only the minimal amount of wiggle room required to keep the masses at ...
