ARTICLES OF Phoebe Roth
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/442_2m9skEr4DA.jpg)
TRANSPORTING A CITY
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...
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/448_g3NTbZo0PH.jpg)
CHANGING THE FACE OF EDUCATION
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...
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/451_7fuBFctOKz.jpg)
INTRODUCING...
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...
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/Q9pT7tLzma.jpg)
La Playa en la Selva
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...
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/38zdeRIw4Y.jpg)
Climate Change Hits Bolivia
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...
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/Fz8LJmOU7i.jpg)
Desolate and Dangerous Beauty
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...
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/lpSMV61qsL.jpg)
Urban Cemetery
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...
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/wWgj8UMucf.jpg)
La Quinceañera
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...
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/WHJhv1GlAg.jpg)
How Many Salchipapas?
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...
![](https://bolivianexpress3.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/article_image_thumb/zIK6Xaikx3.jpg)
Taxi Trivia
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...