After a profound shift in thinking about an unfairly stigmatized plant, Bolivia is ready to spread the gospel of coca.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales Is Banking on the Country’s Untapped Resource: Coca Leaf
Instead of eradicating its coca crop, Bolivia is trying to market coca in a variety of products. Will anyone outside of Bolivia buy them?
In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?
Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.
In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?
Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.
The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad
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.
The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad
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.
Why Would Anyone Want to Lower the Working Age for Children in Bolivia?
“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 […]