PUNACA TINTA MARIA, Bolivia (AP) — For many generations, the homeland of the Uru people here wasn't land at all: It was the brackish waters of Lake Poopo. The Uru — “people of the water” — would build ...

BOGOTA, Oct 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous leader Tomas Candia hopes the light rains that began this week over parts of Bolivia's Amazon rainforest will spread and help extinguish dozens ...

Bolivia’s People’s Ombudsman, Nadia Cruz, together with officials from her office, led a Wednesday march to the offices of the Bolivian bishops’ conference, which some participants vandalized with ...

Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup, insisted he stands firm and urged people to mobilize.In ...

Bolivia's new minister of health publicly endorsed consuming a type of toxic bleach to treat COVID-19, despite clear evidence of its dangers. The statement at the weekend by Edgar Pozo was part of a ...

Over 1,000 passenger buses were found to be carrying contraband goods in Bolivia last year. Bus companies in Bolivia are eschewing carrying passengers for carrying a much more profitable cargo: ...

Indigenous Bolivian Amazon dwellers are helping to bolster recent findings that normal body temperature, around 37° Celsius, or 98.6° Fahrenheit, might not be so normal anymore. The ...

PUNACA TINTA MARIA, BoliviaPUNACA TINTA MARIA, Bolivia — For many generations, the homeland of the Uru people here wasn’t land at all: It was the brackish waters of Lake Poopo. The Uru — “people of ...

Indigenous people from a community of Oruro province participate in a ceremony as they take part in the Anata Andina, a thanksgiving festivity ritual to the Pachamama, or mother earth, for their crops ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday in what appeared to be a failed coup attempt, as President Luis Arce said the country stood firm ...

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