News Bolivia Justice: Meet the new sisters panel for the third year of The Life
GSR Today - Welcome to the third year of our monthly series called The Life. Our 2019-20 panel of 20 sisters from around the world will share their reflections on the unique, challenging lives of Catholic women religious.
News Bolivia Justice: Bolivia, an Island of Economic Stability, But Storm Clouds Gather
Abraham Rodriguez’s small shoe store grew into a factory that employed more than a dozen workers during an economic boom in Bolivia when prices for the gas and minerals it produces soared. Today, he can only employ one worker. He says the tax-free import of goods and the black market have affected his sales and have caused him to go into debt. “My life was better 10 years ago. There were sales and the shoe store grew,” Rodriguez said in his workshop in La Paz. “Today, the market has reduced.
News Bolivia Justice: Morales Says Bolivia Wants Talks with Chile over Access to Pacific
“I want the dialogue between Chile and Bolivia to start, we have so many matters to discuss,” Morales told reporters in La Paz. Morales noted the 2018 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that ...
News Bolivia Justice: The terrific new novel Women Talking asks what justice looks like in the post-#MeToo age
From 2005 to 2009, the Mennonite colony Manitoba in Bolivia was haunted by a demon, and the demon was raping the colony’s women. Women would wake up in their beds fuzzy-headed and in pain, with rope ...