LA PAZ, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- A passenger vehicle plunged off a highway and into a 150-meter-deep ravine in western Bolivia, leaving three people dead and three others injured, the local Fire Department reported Monday.
This year offers an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the troubled US relationship with Bolivia. The new US administration has promised to shake things up in domestic and foreign policy. In Bolivia, meanwhile, a deep economic crisis under President Luis Arce will likely lead to political change following the August elections.
The episodes of repression, violence, discrimination and exclusion suffered by many women in Brazil, which are often not recorded in official history, have been rescued by Brazilian artist Danielle Rosa in a photographic exhibition to be shown in Bolivia.
The sectors loyal to former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006-2019) completed on Sunday their third day of walking from the Altiplano to La Paz in protest against economic problems such as inflation and against what they consider a “political persecution” of the government of Luis Arce.
At least five people were killed and several others injured in a five-vehicle collision early Saturday on a key highway connecting Bolivia and Chile
Protesters, many of them farmers and workers, carry placards against the economic policies of President Luis Arce; the country is due to hold presidential elections in August
Bolivian police arrest more than 40 supporters of Evo Morales as political and judicial tensions soar. Protests led by supporters of former president Evo Morales ended in dozens of arrests Tuesday after a second day of clashes with police in Bolivia’s capital, the national ombudsman's office said.
Supporters of former President Evo Morales march during an anti-government protest in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/)
Former Chilean guerrilla fighter Pablo Muñoz Hoffman was arrested Monday in La Paz, Bolivia, after 29 years at large following a movie-style jailbreak using a helicopter. Together with Mauricio Hernández Norambuena,
University Hospital, Serbia, named a center after Brigham Young in response to generous Church donation, Medical centers in Ghana and Bolivia also receive new equipment.
In La Paz, small boats arrived annually between May and September to hunt for pearls. But due to the primitive diving conditions — Indigenous divers dove nude with only a stick to pry open shells and fight off the occasional shark — there was little profit in this trade for most.