Authorities arrest 13 drug traffickers after an ambush of Bolivian officers Officials from Bolivia’s interim government have stepped up drug trafficking operations over the last six months, but a ...

For more than two decades beginning in the early 1980s, various Bolivian governments working at the behest of the United States government embarked on a policy of forced eradication of coca crops in ...

LAUCA Ñ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's transformative and divisive former President Evo Morales said Sunday that he would press on with a hunger strike until the government of his protégé-turned-rival ...

Remigia Ferrel Vallejos, a Bolivian union executive from Chimoré, in the coca-grower Chapare region, isn’t nostalgic for the old days. “Before there was a lot of fatalism. Many times, in meetings I ...

Coca grower union leaders in Bolivia's Chapare region said Wednesday they will suspend development projects funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and instead look to ...

2006-06-12 04:00:00 PDT Puerto Villarroel, Bolivia-- As Bolivian soldiers torch a pit filled with chemicals and coca leaves used to make cocaine, a fireball shoots toward a jungle canopy. The ...

As the Bush administration rethinks its policy towards Bolivia's coca farmers, Ben Dangl describes his recent visit to Eterazama in the coca-producing region of Chapare. He visits a market where ...

Scientists are urging caution over a mysterious, Ebola-like viral disease that appears to have spread from person to person during a small outbreak in Bolivia last year. The disease, caused by the ...

Five people in Bolivia are known to have been infected with the Chapare virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever. Some infected individuals went on to pass that virus to healthcare workers, and some of ...

Bolivia’s current configuration and its final area were consolidated after the Chaco War and after the country ceded Acre to Brazil and its coastal provinces to Chile. Since then, the need to occupy ...

A small but deadly outbreak in Bolivia yielded new information about a mysterious virus discovered in 2004. The virus, named Chapare virus after the region where it was first observed, causes a ...

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