Urban living
Tainted Love - Private Investigators in La Paz
15 Feb, 2013 | Frans Robyns
From the outside it seems like a perfectly happy marriage. The husband makes a good living; he can provide for his family everything they could possibly want. They have two happy and healthy children...
Faces of El Alto Market
30 Jan, 2013 | Niall Flynn; Joel Balsam
If the end of the world arrives on December 21, as the Mayans predicted, two things will survive: cockroaches and the Feria de El Alto. Every Sunday and Thursday, thousands flock to one of South Ameri...
Grand Designs - Apocalyptic Architecture
30 Jan, 2013 | Joel Balsam
At the End of Days ‘It’s been a historical dilemma for Andean cities’, said Bolivian architect Mijael Bumuller. ‘An increase in demographics causes thousands to move to, and build on, the side of...
Enchulame La Maquina
10 Jan, 2013 | Theo Haynes
Pimp my Ride, Bolivia Neon lights more evocative of the Christmas season than high-performance motoring; oversized exhausts with noises so strange they suggest engine malfunction rather than power;...
Ho Ho Ho and a Pirate DVD
10 Jan, 2013 | Harriet Marsden
"Harriet Marsden takes us on a tour of some of the places and players in the pirate industry in Bolivia:- From a pavement in downtown La Paz alongside Eusebio, a street vendor ofpirate DVDs.- Through...
Señoras y Señores
10 Jan, 2013 | Niall Flynn
Derived from the Quechua word for owl, pajpaku is the term used in Bolivia to denote the innovative salespeople who operate in bustling city squares, inter-city buses and crowded market places. They r...
Bolivia, my new Furusato
02 Nov, 2012 | Danielle Guy
Japanese gardens Nestled in the heart of Zona Sur, the wealthy suburb of La Paz, the Japanese gardens cover an area of only 400 square metres but are a true pocket of tranquility exported from th...
Londres Habia Sido Bien
02 Nov, 2012 | Joanna Thom
Despite the distance from their families and difficulties in their new country, Bolivian immigrants have found a corner in which to feel at home in London. Dozens of languages reverberate through...
Taxi trivia
30 Sep, 2012 | Amaru Villanueva Rance
A fare-changing game Urban lore has it that you’ll find a taxi driver roaming the streets of La Paz at night who will challenge you to a game en route to your destination. He typically gives you...
The homes of the homeless
30 Sep, 2012 | Felix de Grey
Daniel Escalante and his mission to change the situation of the city’s street children As night-time begins to envelop the streets of La Paz, thousands of street children, many of them shoeshine...
The Incan Milky way
30 Sep, 2012 | Laeticia Grevers
A Path to Another World On the border to Achumani , a neighbourhood in southeast La Paz, the star-filled sky is blocked out in places by the borders of the mountains that jump out from the earth,...
Nighttime on high
30 Sep, 2012 | Wan Joo Teo
Working Through the Day, So He Can Stargaze – and Make a Little Money – at Night! The question ‘What do you do?’ is fairly innocuous, but for 30-year-old Gabriel Flores, there is no simple answer...
Un traguito mas
30 Sep, 2012 | Joanna Thom
Alcoholism in Bolivia: from social pastime to social illness. A group of teenagers giggle as they line up outside the club. Still in school, they’re not yet legally allowed to buy or consume alco...
Protecting the Sex Workers' Profession: A Tragic Reality
14 Aug, 2012 | Xenia Elsaesser
'I am also a part of this society’ We are doing important social work . . . It is because of us that there are less cases of rape.’ So speaks Lily Cortez, president of OTN, the sex workers union...
Women sex workers
14 Aug, 2012 | Deshan Chetty
The soft red lights cast shadows on her supple body as she moves with the music. Her body melts into the pole, and every step she takes brings a cheer from the crowd. Her naked breasts bounce to chees...