Bolivia Archives

Most of the alleged abuses were committed at the Juan XXIII boarding school for poor, rural children in Cochabamba in the center of the country

World

Bolivia seeks files on pedophile priests from Pope

Bolivia’s president has asked Pope Francis for files on sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests in the South American country following revelations of alleged...

AFPMay 23, 2023

Retired Bolivian general Gary Prado Salmon was left in a wheelchair after he was accidentally shot in the spine in 1981

World

Bolivian general who captured ‘Che’ Guevara dies

Bolivian general Gary Prado Salmon, who captured communist revolutionary icon Ernesto “Che” Guevara in 1967, died on Saturday aged 84, his son revealed on...

AFPMay 7, 2023

Meta closed hundreds of fake Facebook accounts in Cuba and Bolivia, run by networks it said had 'links' to the governments of these countries

World

Meta shutters fake account ‘cheerleaders’ for Cuban, Bolivian governments

Facebook parent company Meta said Thursday it had taken down two fake account networks with links to the governments of Cuba and Bolivia that...

AFPFebruary 23, 2023

According to the International Potato Center, based in Peru, there are more than 4,000 varieties of edible potato, most of them found in the South American Andes

Business

Drought and frost batter vital potato crops in Bolivia

Dozens of furrows lie barren in a dusty field on the Bolivian highlands. It should be replete with potato plants ready for harvest, but...

AFPFebruary 16, 2023

Sports

Chatting with tennis coach Sebastian Eguez Paz

Tennis coach Sebastian Eguez Paz chatted about his respected career in the sport of tennis.

Markos PapadatosFebruary 4, 2023

Luis Fernando Camacho was arrested on Wednesday on 'terrorism charges,' including for an alleged role in the resignation of leftist president Evo Morales in 2019

World

Bolivia judge sentences opposition leader to pre-trial detention

A Bolivian judge on Friday sentenced key opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho to four months in pre-trial detention following his arrest on charges of...

AFPDecember 30, 2022