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Since 1998, the Democracy Center has been deeply rooted in Latin America and a part of its struggles for social and environmental justice. Based in Bolivia for nearly two decades, we covered and continue to cover the struggles and issues that are shaping a region close to our heart.
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the rise and fall of evo morales
By Jim Shultz for the New York Review of Books
A special report on the tragic downfall of Bolivia’s first indigenous president.
On the night of Evo Morales’s 2006 inauguration as president of Bolivia, the streets of La Paz, the country’s capital, were electric. A man who had once fed on discarded orange peels as a boy was becoming his nation’s leader.
International corporations are decimating nature, destroying lives and manipulating opinion. Here's how to stop them.
The powers of multinational corporations touch the lives of virtually every community on Earth and in profound ways.
First hand reporting and campaigning from Bolivia’s historic rebellion against the Bechtel Corporation.
An evolution of The Democracy Center's work in Latin America, Terra Justa accompanies and supports organizations and communities fighting for social, economic and environmental justice in Latin America
Stories from Bolivia’s challenge to globalization
BOLIVIAN CLIMATE PRIMERS