BOLIVIA: Analysis by Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Nov 23 (IPS) - If two candidates offer funds for the poor, but one of them is known for living up to his promises, who will the citizens vote for? That would seem to broadly describe the choice ...
CLIMATE CHANGE-BOLIVIA: Climbing a 'Dead' Glacier By Franz Chávez CHACALTAYA, Bolivia, Oct 28 (IPS) - The rapid disappearance of glaciers and the subsequent exhaustion of water sources are pushing indigenous communities in the Bolivian ...
BOLIVIA: By Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Oct 27 (IPS) - Taking an active part in politics in Bolivia can be a hazardous undertaking. Hundreds of reports of violence against women participating in politics attest to the risk. And while attacks go ...
BOLIVIA: By Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Sep 15 (IPS) - President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García are set to handily win the Dec. 6 elections in Bolivia, against a fragmented opposition. In a Gallup International poll published early ...
BOLIVIA: By Franz Chávez CALAMARCA, Bolivia, Aug 25 (IPS) - Teenage Aymara girls only mature as women in the eyes of their community when they are able to demonstrate great industriousness and knowledge of traditional tasks. But by virtue ...
Q&A: Franz Chávez interviews ROBERTO HAUDRY of the International Fund for Agricultural Development LA PAZ, Jul 8 (IPS) - Innovative solutions at a time of crisis, extending services and technology to the poor and building democracy around ...
SOUTH AMERICA: By Franz Chávez* LA PAZ, Jun 12 (IPS) - Social organisations in South America are backing the struggle against opening up Perus Amazon jungle to mining and oil companies, which resulted in clashes in which at least nine ...
HEALTH-BOLIVIA: By Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Jun 3 (IPS) - A new Bolivian government programme will provide special payments to pregnant women and mothers with children up to the age of two, with the aim of cutting the countrys maternal and ...
MIGRATION-BOLIVIA: By Franz Chávez LA PAZ, May 25 (IPS) - The income earned by Bolivian women migrants in Spain, which enables them to support the families they left behind and build a nest egg, comes at a high price: low wages, long hours, ...
HEALTH-BOLIVIA: By Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Mar 24 (IPS) - Dengue fever has claimed 24 lives so far this year in Bolivia, in what experts are calling the worst epidemic in the countrys history. The mosquito-borne disease has spread fast due to ...
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