As the climate talks progress, we can be sure that many of the most powerful nations will use a whole range of tactics to avoid making the necessary commitments to reduce emissions.
AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 12.07.2009 | World
LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales easily won re-election, according to unofficial results, getting an overwhelming mandate for further rev...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.06.2009 | Home
President tightens grip on power as party sweeps congressional seats as well....
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.06.2009 | Home
President Evo Morales expected to win second term in office in Sunday's elections....
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.06.2009 | Home
President Evo Morales expected to win second term in office in Sunday's elections....
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.05.2009 | Home
President Evo Morales expected to win second term in office in Sunday's election....
Phillip Martin | Posted 12.03.2009 | World
Skin whitening is a world-wide phenomenon that is becoming ever more popular as people in developing nations become more flush with cash.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York
Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...
GlobalPost | Sara Shahriari | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
By Sara Shahriari LA PAZ, Bolivia -- At first sight, Calle de las Brujas doesn't look so witchy -- there are no steaming cauldrons or pointy hats. ...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home
Latin American leaders agree to create currency that will scale back use of dollar....
AP | PEDRO SERVIN | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
ASUNCION, Paraguay — Human rights activists gained access Wednesday to a dictatorship-era military archive that appears to contain long-held secrets about Paraguay's persecution of opponents during Alfredo Stroessner's 1954-1989 rule.
The basement archive in the Ministry of Defense appears to hold some records about Operation Condor, a coordinated campaign by South American military governments against leftists during the 1970s and 80s, according to rights activist Martin Almada.
The discovery was announced hours after Almada gained access the rows of boxes and yellowed ledgers on Wednesday morning. He said the documents apparently contain names of Argentine opponents of Stroessner's government.
"In skimming through them, we uncovered some interesting information regarding Operation Condor," said Almada, who directs a museum about past government repression and torture.
Several South American military governments are accused of working together to crack down on leftist dissidents beginning in the mid-1970s.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
Pro Mujer is helping some of the poorest women in Latin America to increase their income, develop their full potential, and claim their basic human rights, enabling them to become agents of change.
The Guardian | Jonathan Franklin | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
"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...
AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
La Paz (AP) -- Bolivia has enacted what animal rights activists are calling the world's first ban on all animals in circuses. A handful of other coun...
Gary Shapiro | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
Mexico did not take lightly to the U.S. closing our border to their trucks -- that's why they're called "trade wars."
AP | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian police say that a 42-year-old man who fell asleep under an ant-infested tree has been killed by insect bites. Beni c...
AP | JUAN ZAMORANO | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home
A top aide said exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was heading home Thursday to set up an alternative seat of government inside the country, and will use it as his headquarters in a "final battle" against the coup leaders.
Zelaya's foreign minister, Patricia Rodas, said he is "on his way" back, but refused to say how or when he planned to enter Honduras. Zelaya's current whereabouts are unclear and the leaders who replaced him after the military sent him into exile have vowed to arrest him if he returns.
"Our president will be in Honduras at some point and some moment. He is already on his way. God protect him and the people of the Americas who are with him," Rodas told reporters in La Paz, Bolivia, where she joined a meeting of leftist presidents.
"The establishment and installation of an alternative seat of government will be to direct what I will call the final battle" against leaders of the coup that toppled Zelaya, she said.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez – an ally of Zelaya – said he had spoken with Zelaya and the exiled leader told him: "I don't know if I will die, but I'm going to Honduras."
Huffington Post | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Bolivian drug enforcement agents have raided the biggest cocaine lab ever found in the country, BBC reports. The lab was able to produce up to 220 pou...
AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to change America's historically heavy-handed rel...
The Guardian | Rory Carroll and Andres Schipani in Salar De Uyuni | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
Stand in the middle of Salar de Uyuni, the world's greatest salt desert, and the first word that springs to mind is nothing. As far as the eye can s...
Michael Likosky | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Former Governor Howard Dean and Former Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, both now affiliated with the international law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, just ...
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 06.25.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program, according to a secret Israeli government report obtai...
AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales called for an about-face in relations with Washington on Thursday, saying past diplomatic spats can be o...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 06.15.2009 | Home
At 4,085 square miles, the Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat. The Worldfocus signature story “Bolivia eyes lithium with hope...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 06.14.2009 | Home
Watch the show from Thursday, May 14: On patrol in Afghanistan, Myanmar pro-democracy leader charged, Polish Jews and Bolivia’s president speak...
Pablo Erick Solón Romero Oroza | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green