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.
Off the Market
Our August 2011 report on Bolivian forests and struggles over climate change connects the dots between the global debate over forest protection and the complex realities on the ground.
Bolivia and its Lithium
Can the “Gold of the 21st Century” Help Lift a Nation out of Poverty? Our 2010 report examines what is at stake.
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.
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.
‘Febrero Negro’
Deadly Consequences looks behind the events of ‘febrero negro’ in 2003 to tell “the deadly tale of what happens when IMF theory becomes cold reality in a poor country”.
Constituent Assembly and the New Bolivian Constitution
The struggles over Bolivia’s new Constitution were a defining moment in the country’s political history. The Democracy Center’s 2007 briefing paper details what the Constituent Assembly and the process of constitutional reform means for Bolivia.
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.
