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Racial Violence, Land, and Indigenous Reparation in Bolivia
Nov 08 2022
By Mareike Winchell, author of After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in BoliviaIn 2010, I was just beginning an ethnographic study of Quechua water activists in Cochabamba. At the cusp of starting my doctoral fieldwork, I had a conversation with an activist friend in Bolivi
How Bolivians Fought For — and Won — Water Access for All
Mar 22 2022
By Sarah Hines, author of Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern BoliviaIn January 2006, Evo Morales Ayma became the first indigenous president of Bolivia. He was elected in the wake of a five-year period of popular rebellion that began with mass protests against water priv
Justice and Inclusion in Global Latin America: The Case of Potosí
Jan 05 2020
The story of Potosí, a virtual mountain of silver whose revelation made world news and became a secular icon after an Andean prospector named Diego Gualpa struck pay dirt high on its flanks in 1545.