Bolivia News

In this handout photo provided by Bolivia's State Press Agency , Bolivia's Luis Arce Gomez, seated in a wheelchair, is escorted by police after being extradited from the US to Bolivia, in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

Tourists who once brided to gawk, shop, dine and even do drugs in jail are banned, while inmates' families face expulsion too Children play in the courtyard of San Pedro prison in La Paz, 20 March 2007.

On the edge of the world's biggest salt desert, villagers optimistically scrawl "salt for sale" signs on their mud brick homes.

La Paz, Jul 2 Bolivian Chamber of Deputies'' Human Rights Commission denounced on Thursday obstacles placed by the Prefecture of Chuquisaca, where the racist actions of May 24, 2008 are under investigation.

Public Works ministers of Bolivia, Chile, and Brazil will be meeting here on Saturday to evaluate progress in the construction of the so-called inter-oceanic corridor that will link those countries.

LA PAZ, Bolivia A Bolivian energy official says three international oil ventures will seek arbitration in a dispute over nationalized assets.

A MOVIES IS BORN. "We met Janeth and David in late 2004, when they set up shop, a verdulera or green grocer's store, right next to our home.

Ze Sucre jsme prejeli soukromym autobusem do Potosi maleho mesta na jihu Bolivie.

La Paz, Jun 30 A poll by three important Bolivian universities confirm President Evo Morales'' leadership, ahead of the general elections in December.

LA PAZ, Bolivia: President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to end U.S. interventionism and then halting trade benefits that saved Bolivia about $25 million a year.

Dear Readers: this history of Santa Cruz de la Sierra was contributed by Arril Bruun who was born and raised here when it was still just a small forgotten town struggling to grow on its own.

I thought it fitting to feature the San Isidro Cultural Center of Santa Cruz in this week's news article precisely because San Isidro works for kids and young people and was established on an April 12th, four years ago.

The Museum of Modern Art is small, but represents "cruceno" artists as well as national and international artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries with rotating exhibits.

Bolivia we are told was a battleground for the Washington Consensus, a poster-child for the "failure of neo-liberalism," of "popular resistance to the International Monetary Fund." This was illustrated by such episodes as the Water Wars in Cochabamba and the Gas War that brought down Sanchez De Lozada, and ultimately the surprise rise to power of ...

La Paz, Jun 26 Mayor Juan del Granado announced a Congress of Ibero American Capitals Union as part of the festivities for the Bicentennial of the first libertarian declaration in 1809.

Bolivia's national flags didn't always look like they do today. On the 17th of August, 1825, just eleven days after Bolivia declared its independence from Spain, the first national flag and crest were created by law.

The governments of Venezuela and the United States agreed on Wednesday to restore their diplomatic ties, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said.

After nearly two months away from any reasonable-sized body of water, it was time for us to visit Lago Titicaca .

Plotnik had never seen a getup like this one, on or off an airplane. A camouflage shirt, a different color camouflage shorts worn over green pajamas with LUCKY CHARMS logos all over them, and white socks.

La Paz, Jun 21 With arms extended to the sun, thousands of Bolivians welcomed today the arrival of the Aymara new year 5,517 with the ancestral ritual of the "Willkakuti" , dedicated on this occasi8on to the Bicentennial of the Liberty Cry of 1809.