Rebel Currents

Bolivia’s brutal cooperative mining conflict reveals the growing contradictions and perils of extractivism, as the government and popular sectors struggle to control a dwindling mining surplus.

The shutdown of Bolivia's state-run textile company calls into question the alliance between President Evo Morales and the Bolivian Workers Central at a crucial political and economic juncture.

The surprising defeat of Evo Morales’s referendum bid to run for a fourth presidential term poses new challenges and opportunities for progressive forces in Bolivia.

The surprising defeat of Evo Morales's referendum bid to run for a fourth presidential term poses new challenges and opportunities for progressive forces in Bolivia.

Will Bolivians approve a constitutional amendment that would allow President Evo Morales to run for a fourth term?

Barcelona's anti-displacement activists are successfully challenging global banking and real estate interests, while building new political models that transcend recent Latin American experience.

The new film Our Brand is Crisis doesn’t tell us how a president who authorized the massacre of indigenous Bolivians has lived with impunity in the U.S. for 12 years.

The new film Our Brand is Crisis doesn't tell us how a president who authorized the massacre of indigenous Bolivians has lived with impunity in the U.S. for 12 years.

The government's recent attack on four research NGOs highlights the need for continuing debate around Bolivia's extractivist development model.

President Evo Morales and Bolivia's social movements look to Pope Francis's historic visit to advance their political agendas.

Bolivian President Evo Morales escalates the stakes in the debate over extractivism as an anti-poverty strategy.

Bolivian President Evo Morales escalates the stakes in the debate over extractivism as an anti-poverty strategy.