Topic: Bolivia

'The Linguists': Raiders of the Lost Tongues

A documentary film about two scientists who roam the world to record vanishing languages is a vivid reminder of just how choosing to speak a mother tongue can be a political act.

Whispering in the Giant’s Ear

Last of a breed who make boats out of reeds

On the shores of famed Lake Titicaca, Demetrio Limachi and a handful of others toil to preserve the ancient art of creating crescent-shaped craft out of bundles of dried reeds.

Amid mass migration to cities, Bolivians learn to adapt to urbanization

Latin America and the Caribbean – where 78 percent of residents live in cities – is the world's most urbanized developing region.

Bolivia sees profit in lithium, but can it exploit it?

Officials want to tap vast reserves to produce electric-car batteries, but threat of nationalization could scare off foreign investors.

Can Obama boost cause for Afro-Latinos?

Can Obama boost cause for Afro-Latinos?

Activists hope that Bolivia’s new Constitution, which legally recognizes Afro-Bolivians for the first time, is just one of many new gains for blacks across Latin America.

Bolivia sets new global high mark for indigenous rights

A new constitution approved handily Sunday also risks dividing the nation.

Bolivians set to vote on new constitution

Bolivians head to the polls Sunday to vote on a controversial new charter that boosts rights for indigenous people and nationalizes gas reserves.

Opinion: Latin America's democracy crossroad

Democracy looks strong, but it will be put to the test.

Lower oil prices curtail Chávez's global, domestic influence

Amid a bid for reelection, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's oil subsidy and antipoverty programs may be on the chopping block.

Review: 'Che'

Overlong biopic offers little new to our knowledge of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as an icon and human being.

What will Ingrid Betancourt's South America tour accomplish?

The former Colombian hostage visited eight nations this past week pushing for leaders to support efforts to free hostages still held by leftist rebels.

The Monitor's View: Mexico's plea to Obama: Curb drug use

With an internal war on narco-gangs, Mexico needs the US to reduce its drug addiction.

When Invisible Children Sing

Is slow food slowly changing?

Farmers and food artisans discuss the future of the slow food movement at the biennial Terra Madre.

Quiet rise of Latin America's center

Pragmatism gains over ideology, but some freedoms wane, new reports indicate.

Among Latin leftists, Brazil's moderate Lula leads the way

While President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – a former union firebrand – effortlessly bands together with Latin America's left, he just as easily peels away.

The Monitor's View: The Obama of Brazil

He came from the left and poverty, but da Silva rules from the center, as Obama must.

In Latin America, leftist leaders evict US drug warriors

Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela push back on US operations.

Reporters on the Job

What Obama’s election means abroad

Barack Obama’s victory was met with euphoria in many nations by those who see him as restoring their faith in American ideals.

World

Bolivians worry spat with US could kill jobs

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suspended a trade deal with Bolivia last week for failure to rein in coca growing. Some 50,000 jobs could be lost.

Latin America better girded for financial crisis

The region is affected by global downturn, but more prepared this time thanks to greater foreign reserves and less external debt.