Brazilian soccer team’s plane crashes in Colombia; 75 dead
By LUIS BENAVIDES and JOSHUA GOODMAN A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces,…
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Officials: Striking miners kill deputy minister in Bolivia
By CARLOS VALDEZ Striking miners in Bolivia armed with dynamite seized highways in a protest over mining laws and then kidnapped, possibly tortured and beat to death the county’s deputy…
2ND DEATH FROM ATTACK BY BOLIVIA COCA GROWERS
By PAOLA FLORES Soldiers stand around the coffin of Bolivian soldier Oscar Gironda during a wake at the military barracks in La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013. A group…
RURAL ANDEAN CHURCHES PLAGUED BY SACRED ART THEFTS
By PAOLA FLORES and FRANK BAJAK In this Aug. 21, 2013 file photo, workers from the Culture Ministry display a recovered 18th century painting by an anonymous artist depicting Jesus…
DEATH TOLL IN BOLIVIA PRISON CLASH RISES TO 31
Associated Press A woman who has a family member inside the Palmasola jail, behind, reads a newspaper with the front page covered with the story of yesterday’s deadly riot with…
GOVERNMENT: PRISON MELEE LEAVES 30 DEAD IN BOLIVIA
By CARLOS VALDEZ Inmates relatives surround an ambulance leaving the Palmasola jail in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. At least 15 inmates were killed, many in a fire,…
POLICE: AT LEAST 15 DIE IN BOLIVIA PRISON MELEE
By CARLOS VALDEZ Inmates relatives and members of the press surround an ambulance leaving the Palmasola jail in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. At least 15 inmates were…
BOLIVIA RECORDS: AYMARA HERDER IS 123 YEARS OLD
By CARLOS VALDEZ Carmelo Flores Laura, a native Aymara, speaks during an interview outside his home in the village of Frasquia, Bolivia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. If Bolivia’s public records…