More than 20% of the Chiquitania is under cover of protected areas. However, more than 4 million hectares suffered the direct or indirect impact of indiscriminate logging, land trafficking, illegal invasions, agricultural frontier expansion, and forest fires.
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Brits in Bolivia – bits and pieces
Former British diplomat, Alan Shave – living in La Paz since his retirement in 1996 – was challenged, over a glass of cognac, to write a history of the British in Bolivia. His investigations have now produced some 40 chapters in draft – and he’s still researching everything British in his adoptive country from bilateral relations to spies, mining and railway development and more.
Revolutions in Bolivia
We have the pleasure to present this EBook that contains the papers from the conference “Revolutions in Bolivia”, celebrated in March 2018.
La Paz: a city of joys and frictions
Guadalupe Peres-Cajias will talk about on how “fiestas” in public spaces, located in zones usually inhabited by traditional middle and upper classes, illustrate the social tensions produced by the social mobility of popular classes in La Paz.
To Lead by Obeying: Authoritarianism in Bolivia’s Coca Growers’ Unions
Dr Thomas Grisaffi will talk about the relation between the ruling MAS and the Chapare coca growers’ unions.
The Anglo-Bolivian Society 