Bolivia

Evo Morales claims accusation of him fathering child with 15-year-old is strategy to block his 2025 presidential runBolivia’s former president Evo Morales has claimed he is the victim of a “brutal judicial war” orchestrated by the current president, Luis Arce, after prosecutors issued an arrest warrant over his alleged relationship with a minor.On […]

Cab companies run by women provide safe rides in a country with one of the worst rates of sexual violence in Latin AmericaThe first hint that something was wrong came when Jacqueline Diaz received a call at work from a friend. “You need to come here, to my shop, now. It’s urgent,” she was told. Diaz rushed to her friend’s shop in La Paz, Bolivia, […]

Maximiliano Dávila Pérez, arrested in Bolivia in 2022, was accused of using his position to help transport cocaineBolivia’s highest court on Wednesday approved the extradition of the country’s former top anti-narcotics official to the US to face charges of trafficking narcotics.Maximiliano Dávila Pérez briefly served as Bolivia’s top […]

Communities on Paraná River fear privatisation of waterway operations will destroy way of life River communities in Argentina fear that Javier Milei’s plans to privatise operations on a key shipping route could lead to environmental damage and destroy their way of life.Since taking office almost a year ago, the self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” […]

Some work underground, others pick over tailings; all are running huge risks. But in the town of Huanani, the mines are the only way to support a familyMost nights, under cover of darkness, Sandra* ventures underground into the Huanuni tin mine, about 40 miles (60km) south of the city of Oruro, in Bolivia. She walks for around nine hours collecting about […]

Morales and current president are locked into a standoff for ruling party’s nomination in next year’s presidential contestSupporters of Bolivia’s ex-president Evo Morales stormed a barracks in the central Chapare region and took about 20 soldiers hostage, military sources said on Friday, marking a dramatic escalation in their standoff with the […]

The crime group has terrorised parts of Latin America, and the ex-president’s exaggerations may just empower it moreÁngela Villón Bustamante awoke to a WhatsApp notification on her phone. Still drowsy, she was horrified by what she saw: a graphic video showing the murder of a trans woman she knew named Rubí Ferrer.The killer shot Ferrer 31 times, […]

Interior minister ridicules ex-president’s claim that government tried to kill him by firing shots at his carBolivia’s government has accused former president Evo Morales of staging an attempt on his own life, saying that shots fired at his car on Sunday came after he tried to run a police checkpoint.“Mr Morales, nobody believes the theater you have […]

Ex-leader implicates former ally Luis Arce after his vehicle hit by gunfire amid rising unrest in countryBolivia’s former leader Evo Morales has accused the government of his one-time ally Luis Arce of trying to kill him after his car was struck by bullets in an early-morning ambush on Sunday, threatening to ignite a political crisis in the Andean […]

Raymi Saldaña Rojas, who has died aged 14, was a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, known for winning young artist awards and playing at prestigious venues and music festivals.He grew up surrounded by music and artists as his parents, Jeanette Rojas (known as Phaxsi Coca) and Carlos Saldaña (Kanti Quena), are musicians themselves, part of the group Lokandes. […]

In the face of sexism, harassment and unequal pay, a group of women in the construction industry offers support and empowerment to their colleaguesNot long after teenager Reyna Quispe started working in construction in Bolivia, she found herself hiding in the bathroom to escape her male colleagues’ sexist abuse.“Women in construction are viewed […]

Cecilia Llusco is one of about 10 Indigenous female mountain guides in Bolivia. She has been climbing Huayna Potosí, a glacier-topped mountain that sits at 6,088 metres above sea level, for most of her life. Llusco has been leading expeditions up Huayna Potosí for about six years, after starting work in tourism as a child by accompanying her father who […]

One of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain climbers, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks, changed the tourism landscape – and now has her eye on EverestAt 5,200m above sea level, two women sit at a stone table. Mountains pierce the horizon in all directions. An imposing glacier covers the top of Huayna Potosí, a peak that stands at […]

Evo Morales leads thousands of followers to La Paz to ‘save’ country from his handpicked successor turned rivalThe last time Evo Morales led a cross-country march, it was to defend the government of Luis Arce, his old ally from the Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas). Three years later, Bolivia’s former president is leading another such protest – but […]

Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem • Photographs by Claudia Morales for the GuardianLooking out over Lake Uru Uru in the Bolivian highlands, it is hard to imagine that it once supported thousands of people, and was a […]