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Bolivia

July 2024

  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Still waters run deep: Latin American Foto festival – in pictures

  • Milei in a suit and tie.

    Argentina’s president butts heads with South American leftist leaders

June 2024

  • Bolivian president Luis Arce outside the government palace in La Paz after the confrontation

    Bolivia’s president accused of plotting coup against himself to boost popularity

  • An indigenous Aymara woman walks past police officers stationed in La Paz, Bolivia, on Friday

    Bolivia coup attempt: ex-army chief given six months ‘preventive detention’, says prosecutor

  • Bolivia's sacked army head Gen Juan José Zúñiga Macías is arrested after an apparent coup attempt against President Luis Arce.

    Former heads of Bolivia’s army and navy arrested over failed coup

  • Bolivian authorities arrest Gen Juan José Zúñiga (Photo: Anadolu/Getty Images)

    Bolivia’s president sees off attempted coup after urging citizens to take to streets

April 2024

  • Mountains peek up through heavy fog

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Power to the people? Bolivia’s hunt for gas targets national parks – and divides communities

    Fossil fuel exports were meant to fund a revolutionary leftist agenda. But the state’s move to drill in Tariquía reserve has led to bitter conflict and diminishing returns
  • Rescuers work to retrieve the body of a woman under fallen rocks at Jiuqu cave in Taroko National Park in Hualien, Taiwan.

    Taiwan earthquake: over 600 people remain stranded days after disaster

    ‘I kept praying and praying’, says rescued woman as search for four people missing from hiking trail set to resume following Wednesday’s quake
  • Perfectly soaked … Grutas Tolantongo, Mexico.

    Cracking geysers: the world’s most thrilling hot springs – in pictures

    They can be sacred, space-like, healing or heart-shaped – and anywhere on Earth. Even war can’t get between people and natural springs, as Greta Rybus shows in her latest photobook

March 2024

  • 'Paddington' bears spotted in Bolivian forest raise hopes for species' survival – video

  • The San José was traveling to Europe with treasures to fund the war of the Spanish succession when it was sunk by the British off the coast of Colombia.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Holy grail of shipwrecks’: recovery of 18th-century Spanish ship could begin in April

February 2024

  • Floods submerge cities in central South America after extreme rainfall – video

    Brazil, Peru and Bolivia were badly affected by severe floods that displaced citizens, destroyed buildings and isolated entire cities

  • Construction worker saves dog from raging Bolivian river after flooding – video

    A dog trapped in the roaring waters of Bolivia's Orkojahuira River was rescued by a construction worker hung from a crane

  • Torrential rains batter Bolivia with homes teetering on the edge of collapse – video

    Heavy rains in Bolivia have triggered landslides along the banks of a swollen river in La Paz, leaving several houses damaged and at risk of collapse

November 2023

  • The canal leads to the main lake, but the surrounding area is now turning into desert.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Everything is dry and very sad’: Lake Titicaca gripped by drought crisis

    The waters of South America’s largest freshwater lake have severely receded leaving the Indigenous people around its shores struggling to maintain their livelihoods

October 2023

  • Luis Arce in front of a sign saying bolivia

    South American countries recall ambassadors and cut ties with Israel over war with Hamas

    Bolivia’s leftwing government cuts diplomatic ties with Israel, alleging crimes and human rights abuses in Gaza, as Chile and Colombia recall ambassadors
  • Protest for approval of law to remove statute of limitations for sexual crimes against minors<br>epa10896401 A sign reads 'Justice cannot wait' as women participate in a protest calling for parliament to approve laws against sexual crimes in La Paz, Bolivia, 02 October 2023. Dozens of activists mobilized this 02 October in La Paz to call for the Bolivian Parliament to approve a bill that would remove the statute of limitations for sexual crimes against minors, which was rejected by the Legislature a few days ago. EPA/LUIS GANDARILLAS

    Threats against rape victim, 10, lay bare Bolivia’s culture of sexual violence

    Supporters of alleged rapist, girl’s 39-year-old headteacher, stormed police station in effort to prevent arrest

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Deforestation in Bolivia has jumped by 32% in a year. What is going on?

    • Human emissions made deadly South American heat 100 times more likely

    • Bolivian president expelled from own party amid political feud

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