Culture Shock! Bolivia - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

60 CultureShock! Bolivia to barrel through blockades. I have witnessed episodes in which gas-masked police attacked fi rst; gian ...

The Bolivian People 61 indebted water system of the valley city of Cochabamba. The government granted a 40-year concession to op ...

62 CultureShock! Bolivia research, education and training, under the ideology of economic democracy. Street Vendors—Opportunity ...

The Bolivian People 63 works of art. A whole street-based service industry fl oats among the vendors—plumbers and electricians w ...

64 CultureShock! Bolivia Reality TV Customs police, captured on live television cameras, raid a house storing smuggled goods. Yo ...

The Bolivian People 65 also prepared to patch a leaky roof or clean the yard. If they hear you talking about stained glass windo ...

66 CultureShock! Bolivia villages beyond. Taller folk may have trouble fi nding a place for their knees, but at that price, you’ ...

The Bolivian People 67 as part of her salary, she would be earning more than an entry level public school teacher. The shortage ...

68 CultureShock! Bolivia Street Children Bolivian police tend to refrain from involving children in the law enforcement system. ...

The Bolivian People 69 Bs 1(Boliviano)—less than US$ 0.20. One young boy told me Bs 1, and then after he’d fi nished, he asked f ...

70 CultureShock! Bolivia Other boys hop onto micros with the permission of the driver to sell caramelos (sweets). They begin wit ...

The Bolivian People 71 But only one third of these women actually attend government clinics as required. The Anti– AIDS Project ...

72 CultureShock! Bolivia business of satisfying needs. Condoms in Bolivia are cheap and readily available in any pharmacy. The b ...

The Bolivian People 73 has the country’s best collection of colonial art, with a few rooms dedicated to modern artists. Bolivian ...

74 CultureShock! Bolivia Solón Romero didn’t talk. He was fi nally released thanks to pressure from international human rights o ...

The Bolivian People 75 The sculptures of María Nuñez del Prado and José Antonio Márquez top the list of another genre that thriv ...

76 CultureShock! Bolivia Both Aymara and Quechua communities and villages have a socio-political structure called the Ayllu, whi ...

The Bolivian People 77 profound way, by the militant movements in the fi rst six years of the new century. Meanwhile, agronomist ...

78 CultureShock! Bolivia two by the Bolivia-Perú border. Both Perú and Bolivia have a Quechua and Aymara foundation. When Bolivi ...

The Bolivian People 79 than with another Ecuadorian from the highland capital of Quito. In a similar way, but with its own quirk ...