Bolivia (magazine)
Bolivia was the name of a German-language magazine with reports and analyzes on politics, economy and the environment, culture and current affairs in Bolivia . The magazine was published by the SAGO-Informationszentrum Bolivien eV in Berlin and appeared between 1978 and 2010 about four times a year, each with about 50 pages.
development
Bolivia was first created in 1978 as a subsidiary of the Bolivia magazine “Informatieblad Bolivia” of the Oosterveld Study and Action Group (SAGO). This had been founded six years earlier, in 1972, near Antwerp. From August 1978 the German subsidiary SAGO No. 1 appeared in Cologne, the content of which became more and more independent of its parent sheet and from 1984 received the clearer main title BOLIVIA. This then "migrated" on to Heidelberg, until the end of 1982 a group of Berlin Bolivians and Bolivia friends took over the editing.
Bolivia magazine stands out because it focuses solely on analyzing the politics and society of a single country. The aim was to educate people about the conditions under the numerous military dictatorships in Bolivia (especially those of García Meza and Hugo Banzer Suárez ) in the 1970s and 80s, and thus to promote public awareness of this in Germany.
When the interest in Bolivia subsided after the end of the dictatorships, the existence of the magazine was increasingly on the brink, the magazine was kept alive by only a handful of employees. And even if interest in the country and also in the magazine has increased again since the first indigenous president of Bolivia, Evo Morales , took office, the editors were forced to start with issue no.160 from 17. May 2010 to discontinue the publication of the magazine.