ARTICLES OF Alison Walsh
TO EL ALTO BY BIKE
28 Feb, 2014 | Alison Walsh
Why getting up the hills is only part of the challenge. La Paz is not a cyclist’s city. A child wobbling around the Plaza Avaroa, a group of lads on BMXs doing tricks, someone slowly plodding up...
THE TELEFÉRICO
28 Feb, 2014 | Alison Walsh
From El Alto to Zona Sur La Paz: a unique city, scrambling its way up slopes so steep that only a madman, you would think, could possibly imagine building anything here. And its transport problem...
Putting Shoes on their Feet
02 Apr, 2014 | Alison Walsh
Zattaro is an organisation that works with small rural communities to create sustainable development opportunities through fashion products. Bolivian Express visits the women behind an initiative...
NO MORE HEROES
27 Mar, 2014 | Alison Walsh
Eduardo Abaroa: Man and Myth In the centre of the main square of the Sopocachi district of La Paz there sits a man. Perched on top of his plinth, he is a Bolivian hero, a symbol of national pride an...
AGUA = GUERRA
27 Mar, 2014 | Alison Walsh
When water was worth fighting for In the year 2000, the streets of Cochabamba were turned into a battleground, as the city’s residents protested against the privatisation of their water supply, and...
