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Studies & Investigations on Bolivia

Bolivia has been a main focus of the Democracy Center's various written publications. We have authored media stories as well as more in-depth investigations and reports which focus on the country and its dance with globalization.

In-Depth Investigations and Reports – Focus on Bolivia

Constituent Assembly and the New Bolivian Constitution

For more than a year, the Constituent Assembly and the events swirling around it, has dominated Bolivian politics and political conflict. Read the Democracy Center's 2007 briefing paper by following the link above.

Bolivian Water Revolt and its Aftermath Water

The Democracy Center's in-depth reporting on the popular uprising of 2000 known as the "Cochabamba Water Revolt" - and what happened after Bechtel, the company that had privatized the water, was forced to leave.

Coca

The coca leaf has been used in ceremonies, consumed as a medicine, and traded as a valuable commodity by Andean civilizations for over 4,000 years. But the U.S. 'war on Coca’ in Bolivia has left a stark trail of human rights abuses. Bolivians have demanded a new approach to the 'war on drugs' and the coca issue.

Interpreting Bolivia
Bolivia is in the midst of a historic transformation, one that has thrust it as never before into the global spotlight. This transformation has also caught the attention of U.S. policy makers who are thinking anew about South America's most impoverished and most indigenous nation.

Gas

The demand for public control of the nation's gas and oil resources has been a long-standing one in Bolivia, and has been at the forefront of national politics since 2003. Read the Democracy Center's analysis of this issue.

Articles on Bolivia (2000 - 2004)