28 May, 2015 | Emily Gray

PHOTO: NICK SOMERSThe topic of adoption in Bolivia holds a special place in the lives of two former BX interns: Catey and Christof. Both of them were adopted as infants from Bolivian orphanages and ra...

28 May, 2015 | Emily Cashen

PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS, THIS IS NATAHANIEL, TREY RATCLIFFReligion is a topic that has often graced the pages of the Bolivian Express, be it from examining the country's dwindling Jewish population to...

28 May, 2015 | Emily Cashen

PHOTO: K-OS GALÁNWith the twirling skirts of the Kulluwada dancers, the booming backdrop of constant live music and the mile-long water fights along El Prado, Carnival in La Paz is always a vibrant af...

28 May, 2015 | Eliza Wood

Klaus Barbie, a man who described himself as a ‘superman’ for being a member of the SS during the height of the Nazi occupation of France, was also described as a ‘savage’ by one of his torture victim...

28 May, 2015 | Eliza Wood

ILLUSTRATION: OSCAR ZALLESEl cementerio de elefantes is a graveyard in Africa filled with the corpses and bones of elephants who go to die there when they know their life is about to end. ‘Elephant gr...

28 May, 2015 | Eliza Wood

PHOTO: VALERIA WILDEDía de los Perros is celebrated on August 16—the feast day of St. Roque, the 14th-century Majorcan patron saint of dogs, who was nursed back to health by a canine whilst suffering...

28 May, 2015 | Eliza Wood

PHOTO: IVAN RODRIGUEZ PETKOVICOver the past five years, a string of gutsy interns from Bolivian Express has ventured inside some of Bolivia's most notorious prisons. In 2011, Matthew Grace, an editor...

28 May, 2015 | Adriana Murillo

ILLUSTRATION: FREEPIK.COMIn Bolivia, the origins of unionism lie in the revolution of 1952, a moment in time that was a determining factor consolidating the start of the representation of the working...

27 Apr, 2015 | Alexandra Meléan A.

Bolivian volunteers join a global social action movement for girls’ education. Education is a universal human right, yet obstacles like poverty, sexual exploitation, child labor, cultural paradigms an...

27 Apr, 2015 | Adriana Murillo

Transforming what is simple, and searching for that which doesn’t want to be forgotten. Where does a story begin? In a workshop on narrative literature taught by the writer Adolfo Cárdenas in 2012,...

27 Apr, 2015 | Emily Cashen

Meet Bolivia's four-pawed police force The command rings out around a modest training centre in Obrajes and four police officers hastily stand to attention. Beside them, with their two front paws rais...

27 Apr, 2015 | Jenny Dinwoodie

Bolivia's first indigenous university takes a step outside of the classroom, but just how far? Imagine the serene expanse of Lake Titicaca rippling just metres away. Its distant shores are distinguis...

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...

27 Apr, 2015 | Jenny Dinwoodie

Bolivia Clásica School of Music helps young musicians take to the international stage  Even before the clarinet had reached his lips, I knew I was about to witness something special. It was his...

27 Apr, 2015 | Emily Cashen

Our intrepid reporter samples various educational opportunities around the city TANGO Following 40 minutes of fervent map-consulting and wrong turns, I finally arrived at Casa Argentina—just six bl...