s president has replaced the country's foreign minister following an embarrassing diplomatic manoeuvre involving spiriting a fugitive senator out of neighbouring Bolivia. The departure of foreign minister Antonio Patriota was announced in a two-paragraph statement from President Dilma Rousseff that named Luiz Alberto Figueiredo as the successor. A Rousseff spokeswoman said Patriota, a former ambassador...
s action over the detention of Glenn Greenwald's partner shows South American nations no longer toe Washington's line With a few exceptions, most of Europe hasn't had an independent foreign policy for the past 70 years, and the UK stands out as a prime example of this. I remember discussing British foreign policy with a UK member of Parliament a few years ago, and he said to me: Do you want to know...
Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano (LAB) is one of the world's oldest surviving airlines. But it only has two planes left, and its licence to fly them has been revoked. Still, its employees insist on coming to work ...
s Compass 2015 research project. Some issues have existed for decades: land inheritance practices, customary duty of care disproportionately burdening women and exploitative tenancy agreements. Others are new: changing family compositions because of HIV, increasing frequency of droughts and rapid fluctuations in international commodity prices. "One factor present in nearly every story is that of gender...
s second largest wilderness after the Amazon rainforest. The Gran Chaco is threatened on all sides: Mennonite cattle ranchers have bought up large tracts in Paraguay and Brazilian farmers looking for cheap land for their soy crops have flooded across the border. The quarter of it that lies in Bolivia is the best preserved, but even its habitats have been disrupted by a gas pipeline and military operations...