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Evaporation blamed on global warming has reduced Lake Titicaca, one of the world's highest navigable lakes, to its lowest level since 1949, authorities said Thursday.
Bolivian election officials say a jailed opposition politician can campaign for vice president from behind bars.
Leaders of a bloc of leftist Latin American governments urged the international community Saturday to reject the presidential election planned by Honduras' interim government next month.
Bolivia's president participated in a tribute Thursday to the guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who was captured and killed by Bolivian soldiers 42 years ago while trying to foment revolution in this Andean nation.
The U.S. Embassy in Bolivia says it is closing some democracy-promotion programs at the request of the Bolivian government.
A Mennonite father of nine has died after being hung from a pole for nine hours by 22 of his brethren who accused him of rape, abuse and violating their religious rules, police said.
A Bolivian university director is in police custody after five bodies were discovered decomposing on the roof of a building his school shares with a movie theater, police said Wednesday.
Bolivia welcomes foreign investment in its energy and natural resource sectors but without foreign companies acting as owners, President Evo Morales said Monday.
President Evo Morales says Bolivia has decided to buy a presidential plane from Russia after Moscow offered to set up an aircraft maintenance center in the South American nation.
Landlocked Bolivia's effort to regain the Pacific coastline it lost in a war with Chile more than a century ago will come up again Friday on the sidelines of the South American presidents' summit.
A beauty pageant has set off a beastly battle between Peru and Bolivia, which both claim ownership of the Andean "Devil's Dance."
Bolivian police are investigating exploding envelopes that wounding seven people, three of them severely, in La Paz.
Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country opposes an impending deal to expand the U.S. military's presence in Colombia.
Bolivia has enacted what animal rights defenders are calling the world's first law that prohibits the use of animals in circuses.
Iran's top diplomat in Bolivia says the Islamic republic has approved a $280 million low-interest loan for President Evo Morales' government to use as it sees fit. Gas and oil exploration are possibilities.
Bolivian police say that a 42-year-old man who fell asleep under an ant-infested tree has been killed by insect bites.
A leader of coca growers in Central Bolivia says the farmers are putting their controversial crop behind President Evo Morales' campaign for re-election.
The United States deported a key figure in Bolivia's last military dictatorship back home Thursday to serve a 30-year prison sentence for crimes including genocide and political assassinations.
President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to change America's historically heavy-handed relationship with Latin America and then halting $25 million in annual trade benefits for Bolivia.
Eight men from a Mennonite farming community in eastern Bolivia have been accused of raping dozens of females at the settlement, a prosecutor said Tuesday, indicating at least one victim was an underage girl.
In stories May 11 and May 12 about Peru granting asylum to two Bolivian officials, The Associated Press erroneously reported that genocide charges were not filed against former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and members of his cabinet until after Evo Morales became president in 2006. Bolivia's congress ratified charges against Sanchez de Lozada and the cabinet members in 2004, and prosecutors added five former senior military officials as defendants after Morales' inauguration.
President Evo Morales called for an about-face in relations with Washington on Thursday, saying past diplomatic spats can be overcome if the new U.S. government refrains from meddling in Bolivian affairs.
Bolivia's president says relations with Peru are at "high risk" after the neighboring nation gave refuge to two more former Bolivian officials accused in the 2003 army killings of dozens of protesters.
Bolivia demanded Monday that Peru hand over three former government ministers charged with genocide in the 2003 killing of dozens of protesters, and President Evo Morales called asylum an "open provocation of the Bolivian people."
Opposition leaders reacted angrily Tuesday after a Bolivian prosecutor accused several of them of backing alleged mercenaries who leftist President Evo Morales says were plotting to assassinate him.
Fidel Castro: ALBA countries to defend humanity at Copenhagen & survival of the species Quote: "no longer "Homeland or Death"; it is truly and without exaggeration a matter of "Life or Death" for the human race...In Copenhagen, the ALBA and the Third World countries will be struggling for the survival of the species."
Mary Anastasia O'Grady: Revolutionary Anti-Semitism - WSJ.com"Sometimes I ask myself if Hitler wasn't right when he wanted to finish with that race, through the famous holocaust, because if there are people that are harmful to this country, they are the Jews, the Israelites.
Latin American Drug Cartels Penetrate West AfricaLatin American drug cartels have crossed the Atlantic Ocean seeking to expand their share of the drug market into West Africa.
Morales: US planning coups in L AmericaThe Bolivian president has accused the United States of planning coups in Latin America after Washington reached an agreement with Colombia over military bases.
Ayatollahs cast growing shadow in Latin America; terrorist infrastructures growing | ajc.comThe Obama administration must take note. Ahmadinejad's regime promises to have strategic repercussions in America's neighborhood. The expansion of Iranian influence in the Western Hemisphere — diplomatic, economic, military and terrorist infrastructure — has been rapid.
Faster, Please! The End of the WorldThere is a mounting body of evidence of a global alliance directed against the United States, running from Moscow to Tehran, Damascus and Caracas.
More Miss Universe Costume Drama - StyleList Fashion BlogNow it seems Miss Universe Peru, 25-year-old Karen Schwarz, has a controversy-laden outfit that has neighboring country Bolivia up in arms.
Drug tourism and cocaine bars | Gadling.comhat fun is travel without a little excitement? Rest and relaxation is a given, but excitement? That you have to look for, and it appears excitement for many is found in drugs.
Diplomat: Iran opposes US base deal for ColombiaIran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country opposes an impending deal to expand the U.S.
A normal Bolivian wedding present: A house?Over the weekend in a public address in his home patch of Villa Tupari in Chaparé, Professor Evo Morales (known as a natty dresser and President of the fastest growing country in South America) said that:
Bolivian Indians in historic stepBolivia has become the first country in the history of South America to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
Why we say yes to drugsResistance to mind-altering substances is futile, according to a new "Secret History of Getting High in America"
Bolivia bans all circus animalsBolivia has enacted what animal rights activists are calling the world's first ban on all animals in circuses.
Honduras Coup D'etatIf this coup d'état works, it will serve as a threatening signal to Latin America that the old days of military dictatorship are back. Already there are frictions between the army and the heads of state in Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina.
CNN's Ferre; advances claim that Obama is "joining Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua" on HondurasExcerpt: ""SUMMARY: CNN's Ines Ferré advanced the conservative claim that President Obama is siding with Latin American leaders in opposing Manuel Zelaya's ouster in Honduras, without noting that the European Union and the UN secretary-general have also condemned the ouster. ""
Creative Deconstruction: 11 Things Most People Don't Know About Che GuevaraIt seems the days of the classic "revolutionary" figure are over for now.
Israeli document: Venezuela sends uranium to IranApart from Venezuela and Bolivia sending uranium to Iran for its nuclear weapons, "The Israeli government report also charges that the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon have set up cells in Latin America.
For many people, hand washing clothes, riding on buses full of garbage and chickens, taking a several day trip on a crowded riverboat, and witnessing crisis and civil unrest are not exactly what comes to mind when thinking about going abroad for vacation or to study.
Morales in 'new liberation' pleaPresident Evo Morales has begun marking the 200th anniversary of Bolivia's independence struggle, hailing Latin America's "second liberation". His comments, in a small town high in the Andes mountains, referred to left-wing poll victories across the region.
Bolivian land reform comes under fire from landowners | WorldfocusThe Bolivian government is implementing new land reform policy purported to help the poor, under which the government can seize and redistribute land to indigenous farmers. It's a proposal that has left many landowners unhappy.
The Declaration of Cumaná: Capitalism 'threatens life on the planet' We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of ALBA, consider that the Draft Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons:
Bolivia: water people of Andes face extinctionIts members belong to what is thought to be the oldest surviving culture in the Andes, a tribe that has survived for 4,000 years on the barren plains of the Bolivian interior.
Mr Chavez says Mr Obama is more intelligent than his predecessorBut in a sign of warming ties, Mr Obama shook hands with President Chavez at the summit, and accepted a book from the Venezuelan leader.
Hungarians Irish Croat Colombo-Bolivians Romanians Die in Plot to Kill Bolivian President!!Holy @!$%#!! Update 1: Wait, it wasn't three Hungarians, it was "a Bolivian with a Hungarian and a Colombian." Update 2: Wait, Evo is saying "They are foreign mercenaries -- they are Irish, Hungarians and of course there are no Bolivians." Of course. Also:
Police 'stop attempt on Morales'Bolivia's President Evo Morales says three foreigners have been killed after he ordered police to thwart a planned assassination attempt against him. Security forces killed three alleged international mercenaries in the city of Santa Cruz, Mr Morales said.
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