In colorful knitted caps, in leather hats bedecked with coins, in high white hats of straw, 150,000 stolid Indian farmers and miners poured into an open field near the 1½-mile-high hamlet of Ucareña ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Indian president, took office on Sunday with a promise to lift his nation’s struggling indigenous majority out of centuries of poverty and discrimination ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- They wore rainbow-colored shawls and bowler hats. One carried a bow and arrow. Some chewed coca leaf. Windburned faces told of harsh mountain lives far from the Bolivian capital.

LA PAZ, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Indigenous groups and coca leaf farmers clashed over control of land in a national park in northern Bolivia, killing one person, local media reported on Sunday. Indian ...

LA PAZ, Jan 22 (Reuters) - After centuries of discrimination, Bolivia's Indians are poised to strengthen their political clout by voting for a new constitution promoted by one of their own, the ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Leftist President Evo Morales launched a sweeping land reform plan Saturday by handing over roughly 9,600 square miles of state-owned land to poor Indians. Morales marked the start ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – Bolivia’s long-downtrodden indigenous majority adored President Evo Morales as he championed a new constitution that promised the nation’s 36 ethnicities unprecedented autonomy.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Quechua Indians in Bolivia’s southern highlands have seized three more local employees of a Canadian mining company in a dispute over what may be one of the South America’s ...

LAGUNILLAS, Bolivia (AP) — Juan Vasquez didn't have much of a childhood. He never went to school, began to work as a ranch hand at age 12, married three years later and has nine children. But in all ...

Outside of the Himalayas, the highest country on earth is Bolivia, which nestles in the Andes, landlocked in behind Peru and Chile. Since the altitude of La Paz (pop. 350,000) is 11,900 ft., visitors ...