Bolivia

Rising number of coronavirus cases prompts official US advice, which brings number of countries on ‘level four’ list to over 100The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday advised against travel to 22 nations and territories because of a rising number of Covid-19 cases including for Australia, Israel, Egypt, Albania, Argentina and […]

The government has been criticised for apparent inaction as evidence mounts that mercury contamination is causing illness in fishing communitiesOutside a small brick house shared by four families, Daniela Prada, who is heavily pregnant, gathers guava leaves to make a tea for her two-year-old son.“My baby gets sick a lot,” she says, boiling a pot of […]

The Organization of American States is no longer credible. We need a new body if we are to protect democracyOn 20 October, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, traveled to Ecuador to set out a vision for democracy in the Americas. Over the past five years, the hemisphere has suffered an assault on its democratic institutions, as political leaders from […]

Religious groups seek to force girl to give birth as intervention of the Catholic church questionedThe fate of an 11-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped by a family member has unleashed a fierce debate between human rights activists and the Catholic church in Bolivia, as religious groups seek to force her to complete the pregnancy and give […]

As global heating sees a surge in wildfires, we hear from those tackling the blazes, who face injury, death and trauma, often without proper equipment or supportCurrent approach to wildfires risks lives and wastes money, say expertsRead more in the Harmed by heat seriesIn Greece, fires take up a lot of resources. There isn’t enough money to recruit the […]

A group of indigenous Bolivian Aymara women, known as the Cholitas Climbers, played a football match at 5,890 metres altitude on the Huayna Potosí mountain near La Paz. The current world record altitude for a Fifa-rules game is 5,714m, but Wednesday's game was not a full 11-a-side match.Since 2014, the Cholita Climbers, some of whom used to work for […]

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From Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca to wildlife tourism in Nepal, we find out how the crisis has affected people in four travel hotspots – and whether or not they want the tourists to returnOpinion: Africa’s park tourism crash is a wake-up call. Can we find new ways to finance conservation?In March last year, it was predicted that the global travel shutdown […]

OAS review of violence that followed 2019 election stops short of calling Jeanine Áñez’s ascent to power a coup but finds ‘irregularities’Bolivia’s recent interim government came to power by sidestepping constitutional rules for presidential succession and persecuted opponents with “systematic torture” and “summary executions” by security […]

‘These women wrestle for their mental and physical health – and to stick two fingers up at a male wrestling culture. Capturing them mid-flight was tricky’ Bolivia’s cholitas luchadoras began wrestling in the early 2000s. The women, indigenous Aymara Indians who have traditionally been marginalised and oppressed, took to Mexican-style lucha libre […]

From Canada to Colombia, protests erupt against legacies of violence, exploitation and cultural erasureAs statues of queens and conquistadors are tumbled amid protests across North and South America, Indigenous people are pushing for a region-wide reckoning with colonialism’s bitter legacy of massacre and cultural erasure.From the Arctic Circle to Tierra […]

There was a whirlwind start to a match in Bolivia after a 'dust devil' rolled across the pitch as teams lined up before kick-off. 'Dust devils' are small whirlwinds that pick up dust and debris as they roll over land. They are often mistaken for tornados, which form with a downward motion of wind as opposed to upward. The moment took place in the middle of […]

Undercover documentary investigates the trafficking of Latin America’s big cat to meet demand in ChinaElizabeth Unger was a 25-year-old biology graduate working as a PhD research assistant for big cat and climate projects in Latin America when she heard about the Bolivian authorities intercepting dozens of packages containing jaguar fangs sent by Chinese […]

A first division match in Bolivia saw seven versus 11 after a number of players were sidelined with Covid-19. Royal Pari had only youth players at their disposal and faced the uphill challenge of playing league leaders, The Strongest. The hosts went 3-0 up within nine minutes before the game was abandoned after one of Royal Pari's defenders went down […]

Rich profits from the prized nut have failed to benefit those finding them. Now cooperatives hope to shake up the systemOn a steamy March morning, Edivan Kaxarari walks with a few other villagers in single file down a trail in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil’s Rondônia state, near the border with Bolivia.His sister-in-law Cleiciana carries her […]