LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian rescue teams have resumed the search for people missing in a landslide that killed at least 15 over the weekend.

The search had been suspended Monday for fear that new mudslides could hit the highway northeast of the capital.

Heavy rains caused tons of ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales celebrated his 13 years in office on Tuesday amid controversy over whether he should be allowed to run again for the presidency.

Last year, Bolivia’s top electoral court accepted Morales’ candidacy for a fourth term despite a ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s top electoral court has accepted President Evo Morales’ candidacy for a fourth term in office despite a constitutional ban and referendum against such a re-election.

Electoral Tribunal President Maria Eugenia Choque announced the ruling Tuesday night to ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Officials in Bolivia say a valuable, nearly two-century old medallion symbolizing presidential power was stolen, then quickly recovered.

Bolivia’s first Congress gave the diamond-encrusted golden medallion in the early 19th Century to South American independence hero ...

This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean published in the past week.

Guatemalans living near the Volcano of Fire sought to recover from a devastating eruption that killed more than 100 ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A surveillance camera video in Bolivia appears to contradict police claims about the death of a demonstrator that has prompted large protests against the government of President Evo Morales.

A lawyer for his university in the city of El Alto says Jonathan Quispe was ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivians staged demonstrations across the country on Friday to demand sea access for their landlocked country.

Bolivia lost its only seacoast to neighboring Chile during a war from 1879 to 1883 and the nation has demanded ocean access for generations. But Chile says ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The president of land-locked Bolivia said Tuesday he is prepared to discuss options with neighboring Chile for gaining access to the Pacific, but said that powerful forces in Chile do not want talks.

“At the moment, some people representing the Chilean ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A narrow strip of blue has stretched for more than 120 miles (196 kilometers) across the nation of Bolivia as part of a demonstration of the country’s demand for an outlet to the sea.

Bolivian officials say the Bolivian Navy ensign held by participants along a ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former president of Bolivia and his one-time defense minister went on trial Tuesday in connection with a lawsuit filed by family members who they say their relatives were indiscriminately shot by the military in a heavy-handed attempt to quell civil unrest in ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Leaders from Latin American governments belonging to an anti-U.S. bloc have converged on Venezuela’s capital Monday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of President Hugo Chavez’s death.

Presidents Raul Castro of Cuba, Evo Morales of Bolivia and Daniel Ortega of ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A bomb caused an explosion that killed four people and wounded 10 during Carnival celebrations, Bolivian authorities said Wednesday.

The blast occurred late Tuesday in the middle of Carnival celebrations in the city of Oruro, the capital of President Evo Morales’ ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A street vendor’s gas canister exploded Saturday near the route of one of Bolivia’s most popular Carnival parades, killing six people and injuring at least 28, police said.

The blast took place on a street parallel to where participants dressed in colorful folkloric ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Two young people were found dead Wednesday and one person was missing after heavy rains caused a mudslide and flooding in a central Bolivia town, authorities said.

The governor of Cochabamba province said both of the known dead were minors.

The overnight ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Every year, thousands of Bolivians head to the two-week Alasitas festival to buy miniature cars, houses and toy dollar bills symbolizing their dreams of prosperity in one of South America’s poorest countries.

But this year, they’re not the only believers in the ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian lawmakers voted Wednesday to ease the country’s tight restrictions on abortions, shrugging aside opposition from religious groups.

The Legislative Assembly vote will allow “students, adolescents or girls” to have abortions up to the eighth week of pregnancy. ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s highest court cleared the way Tuesday for President Evo Morales to run for a fourth term in 2019 despite voters’ rejection of such a move in a referendum last year.

The constitutional court ruled that the right to run for office supersedes limits on ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s economy minister is stepping aside, saying he needs to devote time to health problems.

Luis Arce said Sunday he’ll be going to Brazil for treatment, though he did not describe his aliment.

The 53-year-old Arce has been a key adviser to President Evo ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the first U.N. conference on oceans Monday with a warning that the seas are “under threat as never before,” noting one recent study warns that discarded plastic garbage could outweigh fish by 2050 if nothing is done.

The U.N. ...

HAVANA (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales underwent successful throat surgery in Cuba and must rest his voice for about a week, a government official said Saturday.

Bolivian presidential minister Rene Martinez, who accompanied the 57-year-old Morales to Cuba, told Telesur news service ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales says that he’ll return to Cuba earlier than planned for a brief operation to remove a nodule on his vocal chords.

Morales had planned to return to the island in April. But he said Tuesday that he’ll travel to Havana Wednesday ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Evo Morales on Wednesday signed into law a bill that nearly doubles the amount of land in Bolivia that can be legally planted with coca plants.

Morales returned home Tuesday night after receiving treatment in Cuba for a nodule in his vocal chords and he’ll ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The Bolivian government says doctors in Cuba have determined that President Evo Morales is suffering from a treatable viral infection and should remain on the island for five days of rest.

Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia told a news conference Thursday that the ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales went to Cuba on Wednesday for emergency treatment of a persistent throat problem following “major complications,” his government said.

Presidential Minister Ruben Martinez told journalists that Morales left after a Cabinet meeting, but ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — School notebooks, a boy’s sandals and T-shirts given to him by famous soccer players are among the objects displayed at a $7 million museum inaugurated by Bolivian President Evo Morales.

It’s in his native village of Orinoca, high in the country’s altiplano, and is ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales on Saturday agreed to run for a fourth term in office after his ruling party proclaimed him its candidate in 2019 elections, defying the results of a February referendum.

His Movement for Socialism party approved his candidacy in a ...

RIO NEGRO, Colombia (AP) — Victims of this week’s tragic air crash in the Andes were flown home Friday as Bolivia’s president called for “drastic measures” against aviation officials who signed off on a flight plan that experts and even one of the charter airline’s executives said should never ...

HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro’s revolution was slowly dying — or so it seemed.

Communism had collapsed in Europe, and Cuba’s Soviet lifeline was severed. Food was in short supply. Power outages silenced TV sets normally tuned to a nighttime soap opera. Factories rusted in the tropical ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared a national emergency over a lack of water caused by a severe and prolonged drought.

Morales said Monday that national and local governments are authorized to use state resources to attack ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is launching a new natural gas plant that’s expected to increase the country’s output by 10 percent.

President Evo Morales inaugurated the Incahuasi plant in southwest Bolivia on Friday. He was joined by the president of Russian energy giant Gazprom, Alexey ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s government is proposing a law to punish illegal growers of coca with prison time.

Illegal cultivators of coca currently do not face prison time in Bolivia, a country where the plant used to make cocaine also has many traditional uses.

Vice Minister ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Evo Morales and his political opponents traded recriminations Friday over the shocking beating death of a high-ranking government official by protesting miners who had blockaded a highway.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Good leadership skills won’t be enough for Bolivian officers seeking promotion to the rank of captain in any branch of the South American nation’s military. They must now add ideological schooling.

President Evo Morales inaugurated the Anti-Imperialist Command School ...