At first sight, Calle de las Brujas doesn’t look so witchy — there are no steaming cauldrons or pointy hats. It’s just a one-lane, cobblestone...

“Lions hate circuses” has long been a bumper-sticker slogan of the animal-rights movement, and Bolivia has heard the message: the left-leaning government of...

Bolivian President Evo Morales said that he and Brazil’s government are unhappy with Colombia withholding details regarding the military bases agreement with the...

Bolivian President Evo Morales said Wednesday he will propose a South American referendum on Bogota’s decision to grant the U.S. military access to Colombian...

British and Scottish officials joined the United States on Friday in criticizing the way Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie...

Tonight we have two types of cocaine; normal for 100 Bolivianos a gram, and strong cocaine for 150 [Bolivianos] a gram.” The waiter has just finished taking our...

Bolivia has enacted what animal rights activists are calling the world’s first ban on all animals in circuses. A handful of other countries have banned the use...

Drug enforcement officials have raided what they call the biggest cocaine laboratory ever found in Bolivia. The facility, said to have the capacity to produce up to...

This week when massive public protests broke out in Tehran I found myself not far away, in another Muslim nation but a very different one, Turkey. While people all...

It seemed so obvious for a few years, back when the Berlin Wall had just fallen, that democratic capitalism would be the only way left for a developing country to...

As Bolivia prepares to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the start of its independence struggle from Spain, the BBC’s Candace Piette finds that colonialist...

The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has described the recent gains made by China and Iran in Latin America as “disturbing”. During a meeting of...

At first glance it feels like any Latin American barrio filled with kids. It’s a Saturday afternoon, and a dozen young children are sprawled out on a yard,...

Do you live in Europe? Are finances a bit tight? Have you cut back on Starbucks, eating out, exspensive manicures, and cancelled your satellite TV? Have you, like many...

After the turmoil and instability of 2007, Bolivia looks to be turning a corner on the troubled road to reform. Indeed, Bolivian MP René Martinez seems positively...

the ultimate mischief maker with global reach, astounding patience, a shameless marriage to mayhem and terrorism and interests in opposition to those of the United...

“What occurs today is that new winds blow in Latin America and old ideas considered buried are springing up, Bolivar’s ideal, for instance, and socialism ideals...

In a precarious-looking bar in the small, steamy rainforest town of Puerto San Francisco, a Coca-Cola is being ordered.

THE documentary on Bolivian state television opens with grainy images of leaders of the Ustashe, the fascist movement that ruled Croatia during World War II. The movie,...