During Summer 2013, University of Alabama nursing students provided health education and care while exploring the physical and spiritual wellbeing of individuals and communities in China and Bolivia as part of NUR 317/517 UA in Bolivia: Nursing or UA in China: Nursing.
The charges this time were similar: USAID was a “smokescreen [for the United States] to involve itself in our country’s political affairs”, said Álvaro García Linera, the vice-president
Tucked away in the shadow of its more populous and more prosperous neighbors, tiny, impoverished Bolivia, once a perennial economic basket case, has suddenly become a different kind of exception — this time in a good way.