Inside the isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia where 8 men were accused of raping more than a hundred women and girls, the horrific crime that inspired the film 'Women Talking' ...

"Women Talking" tells the story of women in a religious colony grappling with a series of sexual assaults, based on a 2018 book of the same name. The book, written by Miriam Toews, is inspired by ...

The Mennonites in Bolivia are among the most conservative, yet Busqué has witnessed communities changing at various paces. “Some differences that we might deem trivial are crucial to them ...

Mennonites first began settling in Bolivia in the 1950s, primarily in the department of Santa Cruz. Today, Bolivia’s Mennonite population numbers around 150,000, most of whom are involved in ...

In his paper, le Polain identified 65 Mennonite colonies in Mexico, the first Latin American country to open its borders to the group, and even more colonies (90) in Bolivia, where the first ...

I covered the attacks on Mennonite women in Bolivia that inspired 'Women Talking.' Here's what I want viewers of the movie to know.

Mennonites arrived to Bolivia in the 1950s but didn’t find a strong foothold in the country until the 1990s, when many of the communities started to expand through the legal acquisition of land ...

Eight men from a Mennonite farming community in eastern Bolivia have been accused of raping dozens of females at the settlement. A prosecutor has indicated at least one victim was an underage girl ...

The founders of the Bolivian colony emigrated from Steinbach; they named their community Manitoba. Miriam Toews praises the collaborativeness in adapting her novel “Women Talking.” (Mark Boucher) ...

"Women Talking" tells the story of women in a religious colony grappling with a series of sexual assaults, based on a 2018 book of the same name. The book, written by Miriam Toews, is inspired by ...

Mennonites in Bolivia largely reject modern conveniences and amenities, like cars and electricity. A Mennonite family in a horse-drawn cart in Bolivia, as seen in 1991. Bojan Brecelj/CORBIS/Corbis via ...