Click on the photo for a gallery of images from an Andean blessing that we organised by Lake Titicaca in our last weeks in Bolivia to celebrate friendship, our commitment…

My partner Juliette has produced a great short programme for Free Speech Radio News on the UN call on Bolivia to ban coca. Click here to listen  

To give you some idea of Aymaran hiphop. I interviewed the band in the video a couple of years ago. Video spotted on upsidedownworld

What can they be so excited about? Click on the photo for a slideshow…

The skull with a hip-hop hat emblazoned with the emblem of New York Giants had a smouldering cigarette and coca leaves drooping from his non-existent lips. He grinned vacantly at…

La Paz provided another stunning day on Saturday with the Fiesta de Gran Poder. Whirling cholitas, stamping men in brilliantly-bright costumes, whooping crowds, hordes of street sellers, cold beers and…

"Muy frio, muy frio," the dreadlocked man from the shadowed stage muttered into the mike. I shivered in agreement as I looked up into the naked black sky. The open…

The town sits as if sheltering from agoraphobia, tucked under the dawn-lit hills clustered like islands in the sea-like Altiplano, a blur of ugly unfinished brick buildings, a monotony of…

My eyes swept up the curvy body taking in the knee-high platform leather boots, the elegant dress hugging the figure, a beautifully painted face and the long black hair tucked…