American Tesol

During most of the Spanish colonial period, this territory was called "Upper Peru" or "Charcas" and was under the authority of the Viceroy of Lima. Local government came from the Audiencia de Charcas located in Chuquisaca . Bolivian silver mines produced much of the Spanish empire's wealth. Cerro Rico was, for many years the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Teaching English in Bolivia is usually done on a volunteer basis. Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and countercoups. Democratic civilian rule was established in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep-seated poverty, social unrest, and illegal drug production. In December 2005, Bolivians elected Movement Toward Socialism leader Evo MORALES president - by the widest margin of any leader since the restoration of civilian rule in 1982 - after he ran on a promise to change the country's traditional political class and empower the nation's poor majority. However, since taking office, his controversial strategies have exacerbated racial and economic tensions between the Amerindian populations of the Andean west and the non-indigenous communities of the eastern lowlands. Bolivia, officially the Republic of Bolivia, named after Simon Bolivar, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west.

Pope heads to Bolivia amid church-state tension
Morales considers the Catholic Church a powerful vestige of the colonial-era servitude from which the indigenous ? more than 60 percent of Bolivia?s population ? are still trying to recover. The gover...
Publ.Date : Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:51:00 GMT

Bolivia to name Escalante posthumous \'ambassador\'
LA PAZ, Bolivia ? LA PAZ ... "He spoke of Andean people as a strong people." A teacher in La Paz before emigrating to the United States in the 1960s, Escalante studied English at night for years to ge...
Publ.Date : Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:34:00 GMT

Suburban Peace Corp volunteers reunite at Harper
But in the 1960s, when Vern Risty took a Peace Corps assignment to Bolivia and Rob Alexander went to Colombia, their travels were considered exotic. Twenty years later, when Rich Johnson was teaching ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:52:00 GMT

Bolivian literacy drive bolsters indigenous heritage: official
LA PAZ, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Bolivia's literacy campaign is helping to strengthen the country's rich indigenous heritage by teaching native languages alongside Spanish, the program's general director, ...
Publ.Date : Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:18:00 GMT

Modern-day pen pals: Skype brings Bolivia to kindergartners
Kindergarten teacher Lainey Crown ... The American Cooperative School has students from not only Bolivia, but also America, Argentina, Denmark and Peru. Students at the school speak both English and S...
Publ.Date : Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:20:00 GMT

Amish growth includes new settlements in Bolivia, Argentina
left Canada in the 1920s over a dispute about teaching their children in English and landed in Mexico and other parts of Latin America, Nolt said. In recent years, their members in Bolivia and Argenti...
Publ.Date : Mon, 27 Jun 2016 07:10:00 GMT

Teachers, dishwashers, engineers: Others like Gaspar Marcos who moved to the U.S. without their parents
I did homework after work, and it used to take me a long time because I didn't speak English. I graduated from high school with a 3.8 GPA and went on to college and became a high school teacher ... I ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:48:00 GMT

Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to \'Stand and Deliver\'
Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East ... decision to retire that year after leaving Garfield and teaching at Hiram Johnson High School in Sacramento for seven years. He moved back to Bolivia, ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to \'Stand and Deliver\'
With $3,000 in his pocket and little more than "yes" and "no" in his English vocabulary ... including award-winning calculus teacher Ben Jimenez. Return to Bolivia Thirty-five years after leaving Boli...
Publ.Date : Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The language of the indigenous, traversing the Americas
where he also learned some English. At the university, he will be holding a free, non-credit bearing class on Thursdays and Fridays from 5 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. in order to teach those students who are in...
Publ.Date : Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:00:00 GMT

With social media, Venezuela exerts influence on Americans
And few know that it is funded by the leftist governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Uruguay ... Venezuela's government still finds the money to fund TeleSUR English videos to teach Am...
Publ.Date : Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:42:00 GMT