Cochabamba’s Missing Children
In Cochabamba every month on average 48 children are reported missing according the the Human Trafficking division of the Bolivian police unit FELCC. In the nine months of 2011, 437 were reported...
View ArticleStudent March in El Alto Damages Toll System
Yesterday, students, faculty, and staff of the El Alto Public University marched from El Alto to La Paz to demand more funding. Today, the administrative management of the Bolivian road authority is...
View ArticleEl Alto University To Get $10 Million Per Year
A new accord between the Bolivian government and the Public University of El Alto (UPEA) has set forth that the government will contribute Bs. 70,000,000 per year (or $10 million) towards the...
View ArticleU.N. Bolivian Poverty and Education-Level Report Unveiled
In Bolivia, more than half of the population—around 5.2 million people—live in poverty, and 2.7 million of those people live in extreme poverty. This data was contained in a 2011 report about human...
View ArticleBoys Block Girls From Attending School
A mass of students and parents from the Colegio Bolívar school in Cochabamba blocked ten young women from attending their first day of classes at this traditionally all-male school. A judge with the...
View ArticleAll Boys’ School Parents Beat Girls
After the Bolívar all-boys school was ordered by a judge to allow 8 girls to enter, angry parents of Bolívar students have blocked the girls from entering. Yesterday the confrontation grew so violent...
View ArticleGirls Gain Entry to All-Boys School
The parents of the boys at the Bolivar school in Cochabamba have finally signed an accord with the government allowing 10 girls to attend classes there. In return the government will be providing...
View ArticleYouth From Santa Cruz & El Alto Unite
More than 350 youth from El Alto and Santa Cruz participated in the “Who We Are” project that brought young people from different regions of Bolivia together in El Alto for an inter-cultural dialogue....
View ArticleDoctors and Teachers On Strike
Urban teachers and health workers have nationwide strikes to protest Supreme Decree 1126 which mandates an 8 hour work day. Teachers in La Paz have blockaded themselves inside schools and in Santa Cruz...
View ArticleEvo Signs University Laws
President Morales signed 3 bills into law yesterday in Sucre at the Universidad Gabriel René Moreno, de Santa Cruz to benefit Bolivian university students. One law guarantees public universities up to...
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