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Migration throughout the Heart of South America

April 20, 2016

Rebekah Nimtz is an MCC Service Worker in the cross-roads, bread-basket city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. This blog post is part of our series on migration. "Nadie parte fácilmente y quizás nunca del todo." -Emm...

Advocacy Encounter: Guatemala 2016

April 11, 2016

Advocacy, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua

Anna Vogt is the MCC LACA Policy Analyst and Advocacy Support. “A world of peace, a people with dignity, equality and equity with rights. Ancestral communities in resistance, full of hope. Strength lies in a...

A Livelihood Threatened: Bolivia

May 6, 2015

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change

Elizabeth Vincent works with the Center for Ecology and the Andean People (CEPA), a friend organization of Mennonite Central Committee. In November this past year (2014) there was a calamitous wildlife die-o...

Creation Care and Faith: Reflections on the People’s Summit

January 29, 2015

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change

Elizabeth Hostetter works with the Red UMAVIDA and Elizabeth Vincent with the Center for Ecology and the Andean People (CEPA). Both are friend organizations of Mennonite Central Committee Bolivia. During the s...

The Quinoa Question Part 3: Justice

March 1, 2013

Bolivia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

By Kyle Navis, MCC Bolivia Para leer en Español With the rising price of quinoa a reality and concerns over its effects on the producing countries’ capacity to provide affordable access for domestic consumers...

The Quinoa Question Part 2: Digging Deeper

February 26, 2013

Bolivia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

By Kyle Navis, MCC Bolivia As we discussed in this space last week, 2013 has been declared International Year of the Quinoa by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as well as the government of Bolivia, in ...

The Quinoa Question: Part 1

February 19, 2013

Bolivia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

By Kyle Navis, MCC Bolivia. 2013 has been declared the International Year of the Quinoa, by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in conjunction with government of Bolivia, “rec...

Bolivia, Coca Leaves and the “War on Drugs”

January 23, 2013

Bolivia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

Para leer en Español Coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, has been used in the Andes for thousands of years as a mild stimulant and sacred herbal medicine. How does this indigenous practice fit with the curre...

Three Ways to Peace: Mennonites in Bolivia

November 15, 2012

Bolivia, Country Programs, Urban Peacebuilding

Para leer en español By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Mennonites have interpreted the Biblical call to peace in various ways throughout history and around the world. During a recent trip, I was struck...

Two Blogs and One Book

December 13, 2011

Bolivia, Colombia, Country Programs, Guatemala

Here is some advocacy-related news from around MCC Latin America: community-based engagement in Colombia, community-corporation negotiations in Guatemala, and research for peace-building in Bolivia. Colombia ...

The Food We Share

Las piedras claman – Peace Camp, Akron | 10 al 15 de marzo

Stones Cry Out: Reflecting on Peace Camp, Akron | March 10-15

Earth Day 2025: Cultivating and consolidating peace in Colombia

Migration throughout the Heart of South America

Advocacy Encounter: Guatemala 2016

A Livelihood Threatened: Bolivia

Creation Care and Faith: Reflections on the People’s Summit

The Quinoa Question Part 3: Justice

The Quinoa Question Part 2: Digging Deeper

The Quinoa Question: Part 1

Bolivia, Coca Leaves and the “War on Drugs”

Three Ways to Peace: Mennonites in Bolivia

Two Blogs and One Book

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

A Transformative Agenda on Migration