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Bolivia (, ) officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia (, , ), is a landlocked country in central South America.
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Bolivia's government says an opposition senator's highly publicized decision to seek exile in the Brazilian Embassy is meant to embarrass President Evo Morales ahead of next week's annual meeting of the Organization of American States.
The country's OAS ambassador, Diego Pari, calls the move by Sen. Roger Pinto part of an opposition smear campaign timed for the assembly that begins Sunday in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba.Pinto is from the lowlands state of Pando and heads a weak right-wing opposition in Bolivia's legislature.He claims he's being politically persecuted, has received death threats and has evidence of government corruption. Pinto has provided no evidence, however, since entering the embassy Monday.Bolivian prosecutors say Pinto is wanted on corruption charges.Brazil has not yet decided on Pinto's asylum request....Bolivia's corruption-plagued national police force has its seventh new police commander in six years.But some officers are upset by President Evo Morales' choice. Th...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian scientists are trying to rescue a group of pink river dolphins that have become stranded on a river clogged with mud.Biologist Marian...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A retired Bolivian general famous for capturing Ernesto "Che" Guevara was ordered held under house arrest Friday in connection with an alleged...
Miners demanding pay raises exploded small dynamite charges Tuesday trying unsuccessfully to break through a police cordon protecting the government's headquarters, ...
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The fiery coca growers' union leader who rode discontent over his predecessor's pro-business policies to Bolivia's presidency is suddenly grappling with a sharp drop...
A plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Moarales had to make an emergency landing Wednesday because of a failure in its hydraulic system, but no one was harmed, a sp...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A former Bolivian president has been ordered into rehab after he allegedly harassed minors in public under the influence of marijuana.Prosecut...
In a recent editorial published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease, experts from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have highlighted the 'dangerous spread' of Cha...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Bolivian court has upheld a government decision to seize a ranch from a U.S. cattleman and his family on the grounds they treated workers as...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian authorities say an Aymara priest who inaugurated President Evo Morales has been arrested in a bust that netted 530 pounds (240 kilogr...
The Bolivian air force has found the wreckage of a plane and the bodies of the two crew members and four U.N. workers who were monitoring the cultivation of coca.Def...
Their fingers were stiff from the cold, and two musicians got altitude sickness. But the music atop a Himalayan peak in Nepal was inspired by a sensational view as t...
The U.S. women's national team remained atop the FIFA Women's World Rankings released on Friday, extending their small edge over Germany from three to 10 points.Worl...
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A top Argentine official denied on Friday that the government plans to devalue the peso amid rumors that drastic official actions are looming."We are not going to ta...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A protest by Bolivian miners has trapped more than 100 mostly European tourists in the southern Bolivia mining city of Potosi for more than a ...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The retired general who captured legendary revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara was summoned Friday by Bolivian authorities investigating an al...
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