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Women eat noodle soup at a street stall in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
AP PHOTOS: Bolivian street food finds its place at the fine dining table
It’s a signature dish of Chef Dennis Llusco at La Rufina, a restaurant in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, that was recently lauded by the U.K.-based organization 50 Best Discovery as one of the world’s best restaurants.
 
Former President Evo Morales attends a meeting with supporters in Lauca N in the Chapare region of Bolivia, Nov. 22, 2024, amid an ongoing political conflict with the government of President Luis Arce. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
Bolivian judge orders the arrest of former President Morales in sex abuse case
A Bolivian judge on Friday ordered a warrant for the arrest of former President Evo Morales after he didn’t appear to testify in court in a case alleging that he sexually abused a minor.
 
Aymara indigenous people wait in line to vote during judicial elections in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivia’s divisive popular vote for senior judges offers lessons for Mexico
Bolivia is the only country in the world that holds elections for top judicial posts. Soon Mexico will, too, after former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pushed through a highly contentious overhaul of the justice system in the face of mass protests.
 
A woman walks next to a queue of truck drivers waiting to fill their diesel tanks in El Alto, Bolivia, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
‘Everything is expensive!’ Bolivia faces a shocking economic collapse
Across what was once South America’s second-largest producer of natural gas, everyone is searching for fuel. Long lines of vehicles snake for several kilometers outside gas stations all over Bolivia. Some queues don’t budge for days.
 
FILE - Police escort former police colonel Maximiliano Davila, center, as he was presented to the media at a Bolivian Police Command office in La Paz, Bolivia, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
Bolivia’s top court says its former anti-drug chief can be extradited to the US on drug charges
Bolivia’s highest court has approved the extradition to the United States of a former anti-narcotics chief on charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.
 
Decorated human skulls with names are displayed at the General Cemetery as part of the annual “Ñatitas” festival, a tradition marking the end of the Catholic holiday of All Saints, in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivians carry adorned human skulls asking for favors in the Ñatitas festival in La Paz
Hundreds of Bolivian devotees have arrived at the municipal cemetery of La Paz carrying human skulls adorned with flowers for the Ñatitas festival. It is a custom rooted in the Andean region, but not recognized by the Catholic church.
 
Artisan William Luna creates a mask of a loved one for the Mendoza family to adorn a piece of tantawawa, a sweet bread traditional for Day of the Dead celebrations, in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Freddy Barragan)
A Bolivian artist carves faces of the departed onto Day of the Dead bread
During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early November, Latin Americans honor their departed loved ones by setting up altars adorned with food, flowers and photographs.
 
An effigy of former President Evo Morales burns on a road in Vila Vila, Bolivia, to block Morales supporters who are marching to the capital to protest the government of current President Luis Arce in an escalation of a political dispute between the two politicians, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
March for Bolivia’s ex-President Morales turns violent, as political crisis escalates
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators marching in support of Bolivia’s former socialist President Evo Morales were clashing with counterprotesters blocking their way, a stark sign of an escalating power struggle in the volatile Andean nation.
 
Police patrol at a roadblock in Vilaque on the outskirts of El Alto, Bolivia, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. The roadblock was placed by protesters demanding the resignation of Bolivian President Luis Arce for his management of the economy. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivia’s iconic ex-President Morales calls for anti-government march as political fight escalates
Evo Morales, Bolivia’s former president, has called on supporters to protest against current President Luis Arce. Morales made the call on Monday after Arce accused him on national TV of trying to overthrow the government.
 
Villa Ingenio stadium stands in in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivia moves World Cup qualifier to even higher altitude, hoping to elevate performance
Bolivia has always been a difficult place to play and the challenge has just got even higher. Literally.
 
Men talk in front of a newspaper kiosk in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, June 27, 2024, a day after Army troops stormed the government palace in what President Luis Arce called a coup attempt. (AP Photo/Carlos Sanchez)
A week after an alleged coup attempt in Bolivia, confusion and conspiracy theories reign
A fugitive general charged with collusion over last week’s alleged coup attempt in Bolivia has told The Associated Press that before being pulled out of retirement to storm the presidential palace, he had the impression that the embattled government intended to share power with the Bolivian army.
 
A vendor waits for customers at her produce stand, a day after Army troops stormed the government palace in what President Luis Arce called a coup attempt, in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Sanchez)
Economic turmoil in Bolivia fuels distrust in government and its claim of a ‘failed coup’
Bolivians have been hit hard by economic turmoil in the small South American nation fueled by a longtime hyper-dependence on, and now shortage of, U.S. dollars.
 
Satusa Apaza stands outside the jail where a relative of hers is being held in connection with his alleged involvement in what President Luis Arce called a coup attempt in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Families say those detained in Bolivia failed coup were tricked. President says it’s not his problem
Families of the 21 people detained on accusations that they participated in a failed coup attempt appear visibly confused and anxious in the jail where they’re being kept. They say they knew nothing of a plot in the lead-up to Wednesday’s spectacle.
 
Bolivian police hold the detained Juan Jose Zuniga, former general commander of the Army, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. An apparent failed coup attempt erupted Wednesday in the country, and Zuniga appeared to be leading the rebellion. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Who is General Zúñiga, the shadowy officer behind the thwarted coup in Bolivia?
The man behind the attempted coup that has rocked Bolivia remains a mystery to much of the country. Little known before bursting into Bolivia’s presidential palace tailed by tanks and armored vehicles, General Juan Jose Zúñiga served as commander of the country’s armed forces from 2022 until his pub
 
Bolivian President Luis Arce speaks during a press conference the day after troops stormed the presidential palace in what he called a coup attempt, in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivia’s president lambasts accusations of a self-coup as ‘lies’ as his supporters rally
Bolivian President Luis Arce has denied being behind an attempted coup against him and said the general who apparently led it “acted on his own,” lashing out at accusations that he had asked for the mutiny in a plan to boost his popularity.
 
Bolivian police hold the detained Juan Jose Zuniga, former general commander of the Army, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. An apparent failed coup attempt erupted Wednesday in the country, and Zuniga appeared to be leading the rebellion. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivian general arrested after apparent failed coup attempt as government faces new crisis
Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup and urged people to mobilize. He called for “democracy to be respected” in a message on his X account.
 
A coca vendor works at a legal coca leaf market in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Bolivia’s government has revived a years-long battle to get the U.N. to decriminalize the coca leaf, an effort to win global recognition for its Indigenous traditions and expand its local market of coca-related products. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
A brew of ancient coca is Bolivia’s buzzy new beer. But it’s unclear if the world will buy in
Buzz is building around a new star beverage in Bolivia, where the coca leaf has long been legal despite the U.N.’s blanket prohibition due to the plant’s association with cocaine.
 
Suibel Gonzales, left, and her mother Lidia Huayllas, Aymara Indigenous women who make a living as mountain guides, walk on the Huayna Potosi glacier on the outskirts of El Alto, Bolivia, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. When they first started climbing the Andes peaks years ago, they could hear the ice crunching under their crampons. These days, it’s the sound of melted water running beneath their feet that they mostly listen to as they make their way up. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivia’s Indigenous women climbers fear for their future as the Andean glaciers melt
Dressed up in colorful, multilayered skirts, a group of 20 Indigenous Bolivian women have been climbing the Andes peaks for the past eight years, working as guides for tourists.
 
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Palestinians carry a dead child who was found under the rubble of a destroyed building following Israeli airstrikes in Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)
Bolivia severs diplomatic ties with Israel as Chile and Colombia recall their ambassadors
Bolivia’s government has severed diplomatic relations with Israel, accusing it of carrying out “crimes against humanity” in the Gaza Strip.
 
FILE - Luis Fernando Camacho, opposition leader and president of the Civic Committee Pro Santa Cruz, attends a rally with the coca leaf growers in La Paz, Bolivia, Nov. 7, 2019. Camacho, the opposition governor of Bolivia's most prosperous region, was taken to a hospital for tests on Sept. 6, 2023 after his health deteriorated during pre-trial detention in a prison where he has been serving since Dec. 2022 for alleged sedition and terrorism. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
Bolivia’s opposition leader undergoes medical tests as his pre-trial detention drags on for months
The governor of Bolivia’s most populous and richest region has been allowed to briefly leave his high-security prison cell for medical tests, highlighting how the politician widely considered the country’s opposition leader has been governing from behind bars for more than eight months.
 
An Aymara man walks on the dry cracked bed of Lake Titicaca, in Huarina, Bolivia, Thursday, July 27, 2023. The lake's low water level is having a direct impact on the local flora and fauna and is affecting local communities that rely on the natural border between Peru and Bolivia for their livelihood. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
A drought alert for receding Lake Titicaca has Indigenous communities worried for their future
Authorities in Bolivia have declared a drought alert for Lake Titicaca after water levels of the world’s highest navigable lake receded to a critically low threshold. But the hydrology unit of Bolivia’s navy warned this is likely just the beginning.
 
Bolivian Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo Aguilar gives a press conference in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivia says it is interested in obtaining Iranian drone technology to protect its borders
Bolivia is interested in obtaining Iranian drone technology to protect its borders and combat smuggling and drug trafficking, the Andean country’s Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo confirmed Tuesday, a day after Argentina demanded information on the opaque agreement sealed between Iran and Bolivia th
 
Adopt a grandparent: Young help the old in Bolivian pandemic
Some Bolivians are “adopting” a grandparent to make life a little easier for those most vulnerable to the pandemic.
 
Erasing Evo: Bolivian bid to remove his image draws backlash
Across Bolivia, the interim government is taking down statues, painting over murals, changing the names of soccer fields and stadiums, and trying to erase the legacy of exiled former President Evo Morales, who ruled the South American country for more than 14 years as its first indigenous president.
 
Bolivia to renew Israel ties after rupture under Morales
Bolivia said Thursday it will restore diplomatic ties with Israel, a decade after then-President Evo Morales severed relations because of an Israeli military offensive in Gaza.
 
Evo Morales’ backers leaving barricades after Bolivia deal
Official say supporters of ousted President Evo Morales have begun abandoning barricades set up on roads leading into Bolivia’s main cities after an agreement was reached late Friday to hold new elections and launch talks to end unrest that has claimed at least 32 lives.
 
Dissent spreads in Bolivia’s police amid political unrest
Dissension appears to be spreading in police forces across Bolivia as opposing sides in the country’s political divide hold fast to their positions after 17 days of violent protests over the legitimacy of President Evo Morales’ claimed re-election.
 
Bolivia says OAS team to audit disputed election
Bolivia’s government says the Organization of American States is sending a 30-person team to audit a presidential election that the opposition says was rigged to ensure the re-election of President Evo Morales.
 
Evo Morales says he’d welcome election audit in Bolivia
Bolivian President Evo Morales is challenging his critics to prove alleged fraud in his re-election, saying he’d welcome an international audit of the vote count.
 
Spike in femicides raises alert in Bolivia
Authorities in Bolivia say that the 73 femicides reported since January represents the highest number in six years in the same period.
 
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