AGP Executive Report
Last update: 23 minutes agoBolivia Culture & Governance: President Rodrigo Paz cut his cabinet from 14 to 12 ministries, eliminating portfolios including Development Planning and Sustainable Tourism, Culture, Folklore and Gastronomy—while promising those areas will live on through a new “national agency” meant to speed up public-private and international coordination. Indigenous & Environmental Justice: A major Amazon enforcement push, Operation Green Shield 2026, involved Bolivia and other countries in coordinated raids that netted 839 arrests and seized illegal timber and gold tied to laundering networks reaching US and European markets. Archaeology & Heritage: Researchers using lidar uncovered the Aquiry civilization beneath the Amazon canopy—an organized society with massive geometric earthworks and ceremonial roads dating roughly 2,000 years ago, with parallels drawn to ancient Greece. Health & Aging: A Latin America-wide trial across 11 countries, including Bolivia, found older adults at risk of dementia improved more with a structured, coach-led lifestyle program than with a flexible self-guided version. Food & Identity: In La Paz, Arami—opened in 2024—pairs chef Marsia Taha Mohamed and sociologist-sommelier Andrea Moscoso Weise to spotlight Amazon-and-Andes ingredients through a menu built around Bolivia’s biodiversity.
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