Bolivia

Violence broke out in La Paz on Wednesday (June 24) as university students and professors calling for greater funding clashed with police, amidst public anger over spending on a new government palace and a trip to Russia for the World Cup for President Evo Morales.

Annual tradition sees relics of relatives receive offerings.

Natural disasters can leave communities to fend for themselves but with support they can use their environment to help.

Bolivia is under a state of emergency after a vast agricultural area of around 1000 hectares has been laid to ruin by a plague of locusts.

Bolivia on Thursday opened a $7 million museum dedicated to President Evo Morales and indigenous peoples in Morales’s birthplace of Orinoca high up in the deserts of the Bolivian…

Two men held suspected of murder of Polish woman in Bolivia

On January 24 each year, people from all over Bolivia flock to La Paz to take part in the traditional Alasitas Festival which is a shopper’s paradise.

At least eight people have died in massive floods caused by days of torrential rain in Bolivia.

Floods caused by torrential rain in Bolivia have killed at least eight people.

The Bolivian president has agreed to stand for a fourth mandate in 2019, after his party nominated him as candidate. This is despite a constitutional referendum in February.

Gustavo Vargas, the chief executive of Bolivian charter airline LaMia, has been detained for questioning.

Bolivia’s once second largest lake is now completely dry after the worst drought in a quarter of a century.

The President of the Bolivian Football Association was arrested this week on corruption charges.

For many Latin Americans Fidel Castro was a hero, a David who took on the Goliath of US imperialism and won.

Bolivia’s government has declared a national emergency because of a water shortage as it suffers the worst drought in 25 years.

Bolivia’s government has declared a national emergency due to a lack of water as it suffers the worst drought in 25 years.

A Bolivian politician has been abducted and beaten to death by striking mineworkers.

Hundreds of dog owners have had their pets blessed in the Bolivian city of El Alto as part of Saint Roch’s Day – named after the patron saint of dogs.

Miners’ protest over “neoliberal” agenda of Bolivian President Evo Morales ends in clashes with several people injured and hostages taken.

Bolivia’s indigenous Aymara people celebrate the southern hemisphere’s shortest day, June 21, which is also, for them, the beginning of a new year.