24 Mar, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

La Paz’s new cable-car transit system is changing the commute of both paceños and alteños—and transforming the city. Arriving in La Paz, one of the first things I noticed was the teleférico, the cable...

27 Apr, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

Long-suppressed indigenous languages are now fundamental in Bolivian classrooms On an unusually cold and miserable Wednesday morning, I wander the streets of El Alto in search of Colegio Amauta, the s...

27 Apr, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

Carolina Interview Name: Carolina Age: 9 What’s your school called? It’s called Max Paredes School and it’s really close to here (20 de Octubre) What’s your favourite subject and why? Natural science...

28 May, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

PHOTO: FINN JUBAKThe Playa Turquesa website shows a slim, bikini-clad blonde lady, reclining on white sand with clear water and sailingboats in the background—what looks like a fancy Mediterranean pac...

28 May, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

PHOTO: VILLE MIETTINENToday, climate change presents itself in many ways: photos of polar bears clinging to floating ice caps and cities being encroached upon by the desert are abundant on the web. Bu...

28 May, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

PHOTO: PHOEBE ROTHFrom the lights of El Alto city at night—a starry sky that, to a London-born city girl, looks like a theatre backdrop—to the sun rising above the clouds, the views climbing Huayna Po...

28 May, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

PHOTO: MICHAEL DUNN CACERESWalking through the general cemetery of La Paz, I was astounded at how strange and different it looked to anywhere I had seen before, with various blocks of what looked like...

28 May, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

PHOTO: LINDA MARKLUNDIn Bolivia, fifteen is the age that a girl enters into womanhood, and the quinceañera tradition dictates that an extravagant party is thrown to celebrate this rite of passage. It...

28 May, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

PHOTO: NICK SOMERSLegend has it that the man selling salchipapas on the edge of Plaza España has been around for decades. Jackie, who works in the bar Diesel on Avenida 20 de Octubre, claims that when...

28 May, 2015 | Phoebe Roth

PHOTO: AMARU VILLANUEVA RANCESomewhere amongst the abundance of radio taxis and the rather suspect missing-a-headlight cabs, you can find a driver named Mario Durán, who famously challenges his passen...