Andean Community of Nations

Colombia’s local elections mired in fraud and corruption

There are 130,000 candidates running in the October 30 elections for governor, mayor and local councils in Columbia, and more than 10 percent have criminal records.

The World

The Tale of Juan Mendoza, Bolivian Hero and Aviator

Arts, Culture & Media

Andean Nation Does The Numbers

Conflict & Justice
The World

‘Memory Projects’ to Honor the Victims of Violence in Colombia and Mexico

Global Politics

Do Colombians Care About the Secret Service Prostitution Scandal?

Bolivian President’s School Reforms Facing Resistence

Global Politics

Bolivian President Evo Morales’ efforts to take his revolution into the classroom are meeting with some resistance from the locals.

The World

Colombian Teenagers Kick Off Junior World Cup

Sports

The Under-20 soccer World Cup gets under way on Friday in Colombia.

The World

Ancient Andean Agriculture Revived

Bruce Gellerman of member station WBUR reports from Bolivia on the rediscovery and revival of an ingenious irrigation system once used in the high Andean plain known as the Altiplano. The system helped support a population of 250,000 in an area where only a tenth as many have been able to scratch out a living […]

The World

Rediscovering Ancient Farming Technology

High in the Bolivian Andes, twenty thousand farmers barely survive on land that, over a thousand years ago, supported a powerful empire with a quarter of a million people. An American anthropologist believes he’s uncovered the secrets to the ancient Indians’ success, and has begun to reintroduce the old farming method. Bruce Gellerman reports that […]

The World

The High Price of Colombia’s Drug Trade

In the second installment of our two-part series on the Colombian environment, we look at how that nation’s 40-year-old Civil War and drug trade have taken its toll on the natural world. Angela Swafford reports from Colombia’s Amazon forest.