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'I feel blessed': Plane crash survivor cheats death anew after bus falls off cliff

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 04 01:27 PM

La Paz, Bolivia - A 30-year-old flight engineer who survived a horror plane crash in Colombia in 2016 has crawled alive from the wreckage of a bus in Bolivia that plunged off a cliff, killing 21 people. Read more »

Bolivian city uses cold chicken truck to move COVID-19 vaccines

Santiago Limachi and Monica Machicao, Reuters
Posted at Feb 03 07:12 AM

A Bolivian city has resorted to using a refrigerated chicken truck to keep COVID-19 vaccines cold, a reflection of how the pandemic is straining resources in developing countries as they look to ramp up inoculations with limited infrastructure.   Read more »

Gangs in Latin America use bribery, secret routes to smuggle jaguar parts to China -report

Oliver Griffin, Reuters
Posted at Nov 06 09:42 AM

BOGOTA - Criminal organizations in Bolivia and other Latin American countries are bribing police and circumventing customs restrictions to smuggle parts of jaguars to mainland China, an investigation by environmental groups showed on Thursday. Read more »

Swimming pool disinfectant, other dubious virus remedies surge in Latin America

María Silvia Trigo, Anatoly Kurmanaev and José María León Cabrera, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 24 11:56 AM

In Cochabamba, high in the Bolivian Andes, people line up daily outside pharmacies on the central plaza, eager to buy the scarce elixir they hope will ward off COVID-19: chlorine dioxide, a kind of bleach used to disinfect swimming pools and floors. Experts said drinking it is pointless at best and hazardous at worst. Read more »

Bolivia's interim president Anez says she has coronavirus

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 10 09:44 AM

LA PAZ - Bolivia's interim president Jeanine Anez announced Thursday that she has tested positive for coronavirus. "I've tested positive for COVID-19, I'm fine, I will work from isolation," she tweeted. Read more »

Bolivian health minister tests positive as virus hits cabinet

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 06 10:26 AM

Bolivian Health Minister Eidy Roca has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the third member of the cabinet to be infected in 4 days, interim President Jeanine Anez said on Sunday.   Read more »

'Another pandemic': In Latin America, domestic abuse rises amid lockdown

Lucila Sigal, Natalia A. Ramos Miranda, Ana Isabel Martinez and Monica Machicao, Reuters
Posted at Apr 27 09:39 PM

Lockdowns around Latin America are helping slow the spread of COVID-19, but are having a darker and less-intended consequence: a spike in calls to helplines suggests a rise in domestic abuse, in a region where almost 20 million women and girls suffer sexual and physical violence each year. Read more »

PH bet in Reina Hispanoamericana 2019 joins Bolivia’s Boulevard Carnaval

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 03 11:39 AM

Katrina Llegado is honored to have showcased the best of Filipino fashion and culture as she took part in Boulevard Carnaval 2020.  Read more »

Tourists who damaged Machu Picchu site deported, banned for 15 years

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 17 10:07 AM

LIMA, Peru - Five tourists accused of damaging Peru's iconic Machu Picchu site were deported to Bolivia on Thursday and barred from returning to the country for 15 years, police and immigration officials said. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: November 21, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 21 11:54 PM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Filipino leftists express support for resigned Bolivian President Morales

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 21 05:07 PM

Leftist groups hold a solidarity action in Quezon City on Thursday for resigned Bolivian president Evo Morales after weeks of protests since his reelection in October. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: November 14, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 14 11:39 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

It's Bolivia's turn

Natacha Pisarenko, AP
Updated as of Nov 14 11:20 AM

Bolivia's new interim president Jeanine Anez faces the challenge of stabilizing the nation and organizing national elections within three months at a time of political disputes that pushed Morales to fly off to self-exile in Mexico after 14 years in power. Read more »

Evo Morales's topsy turvy flight into exile

Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 13 06:52 AM

MEXICO CITY - Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales jetted off to exile in Mexico Tuesday in a bizarre flight full of detours that traced the shifting political map of a Latin America racked by crises. Read more »

Trump: Bolivia leader's resignation sign to 'illegitimate regimes'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 12 07:44 AM

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Monday hailed the resignation of Bolivia's leftist leader Evo Morales as a sign to "illegitimate" regimes and praised the role of the country's military. Read more »

Bolivia's Morales resigns after losing backing of security forces

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 11 07:42 AM

Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation Sunday, caving in following three weeks of sometimes-violent protests over his disputed re-election after the army and police withdrew their backing. Read more »

Helicopter carrying Bolivia president makes emergency landing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 05 08:05 AM

No one was hurt, the air force said, but the incident fueled tensions in the country where protesters have been rallying against the leftist president for two weeks following his disputed re-election. Read more »

Reina Hispanoamericana 2019 pageant postponed

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 30 02:38 PM

The Reina Hispanoamericana 2019 pageant has been postponed following the post-election violence in host country Bolivia.  Read more »

A 70-year old biking grandmother conquers Bolivia's 'Death Road'

Daniel Ramos, Reuters
Posted at Oct 06 09:51 AM

Bolivia's "Death Road" might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on 2 wheels.   Read more »

More than 2 million animals perish in Bolivia wildfires

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 26 07:42 AM

More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swaths of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said Wednesday.   Read more »