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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Profiles & Interviews

Reporting on Bolivia’s Coca Rebirth: An Interview with Jessica Camille Aguirre

by Aaron Gilbreath May 14, 2018October 19, 2022

After a profound shift in thinking about an unfairly stigmatized plant, Bolivia is ready to spread the gospel of coca.

Posted inBusiness, Nonfiction, Quotes

Bolivian President Evo Morales Is Banking on the Country’s Untapped Resource: Coca Leaf

by Aaron Gilbreath April 25, 2018October 19, 2022

Instead of eradicating its coca crop, Bolivia is trying to market coca in a variety of products. Will anyone outside of Bolivia buy them?

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?

by leighshulman August 8, 2017October 19, 2022

Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction

In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?

by leighshulman August 8, 2017October 19, 2022

Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad

by Longreads July 14, 2016October 19, 2022

As an avid solo traveler—and proponent of the empowerment traveling alone can offer women—Laura Yan has been conflicted about revealing she was raped in Bolivia.

Posted inNonfiction

The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad

by Longreads July 14, 2016October 19, 2022

As an avid solo traveler—and proponent of the empowerment traveling alone can offer women—Laura Yan has been conflicted about revealing she was raped in Bolivia.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Why Would Anyone Want to Lower the Working Age for Children in Bolivia?

by heymarkarms November 21, 2013October 19, 2022

“I’d gone to Bolivia because some NGOs and activists there have been trying—seemingly against all good sense—to lower the legal working age from 14 to six years old. And this was not the doing of mine owners or far-right politicians seeking cheap labor like one might expect. Instead the idea has been floated by a […]

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