Bolivia

Stranded: Survivor shares ordeal after spending 36 hours in gator-infested swamp after plane crash

The five survivors, including a 6-year-old boy, spent 36 hours in the predator-infested swamp area before being rescued on Friday by some fishermen.

Five people survived an intensive ordeal after they were left stranded in an alligator and anaconda-infested swamp last week when their small plane lost altitude and was forced to land in the Bolivian jungle. 
 Bolivian President Luis Arce participates in a ceremony celebrating the Day of the Sea, which commemorates Bolivia's maritime claims, in La Paz, Bolivia March 23, 2025.

Israel Foreign Ministry recommends that tourists not travel to Bolivia

 CAM Director of Hispanic Affairs Shay Salamon and Bolivian Plurinational Legislative Assembly Deputy Laura Rojas Ayala.

Bolivia recognizes CAM for work combating antisemitism in Latin America

 A soldier sits atop an military vehicle as Bolivia's President Luis Arce "denounced the irregular mobilization" of some units of the country's army, in La Paz, Bolivia June 26, 2024.

Bolivia coup attempt fails after military assault on presidential palace


Bolivia cuts ties with Israel over Gaza War, three countries pull envoys

Bolivia in 2009 cut diplomatic ties with Israel in protest of its attacks on the Gaza Strip. In 2020, the government of President Jeanine Anez reestablished ties.

 Smoke rises over Gaza, as seen from Israel's border with Gaza, in southern Israel October 30, 2023

Iran, Bolivia defense ministers sign memorandum - analysis

"We maintain that improving the bilateral defense relations will lead to increasing the Bolivian government's deterrence power," Ashtiani was quoted by the official news agency IRNA as saying.

Iranian Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani reacts during a meeting of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela June 12, 2023

'Magical' pink dolphins rescued in Bolivia in push to boost species

Many pink dolphins lose access to the river because of their reproductive instincts.

 A pink dolphin is seen swimming while being trained at the Oasis Sea World marine park in Chantaburi, nearly 290 km (190 miles) southeast of Bangkok on December 20, 2003. Pink dolphins, also known as Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, are among the world's most endangered species.

Forgotten ruins of Amazonian settlements discovered in Bolivian jungle - study

Using LIDAR remote scanning researchers can accomplish what would previously have taken years of grueling fieldwork, in a single flight

An aerial view of the Amazon rainforest.

Jewish-Argentinian girl found in Bolivia after feared kidnapped

Naomi Shirley Lloroff left her Buenos Aires home after she agreed to meet up with a man from TikTok, presenting himself as a teenager from Bolivia.

Buenos Aires

Exile Music: A Jewish family's journey from Vienna to Bolivia

Book Review: Exile Music, by Jennifer Steil.

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs during the Summer Night Concert in September. One of the novel’s main characters played for the orchestra before Austria was taken over by the Nazis.

Democracy is not dead in Bolivia

Evo Morales resigned when an investigation by the Organization of American States reported that there had been “serious irregularities” in the vote and “clear manipulations” of the voting system.

FORMER BOLIVIAN President Evo Morales gestures during an interview in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March.

The legacy of Evo Morales

Bolivia’s longest serving president: Socialist authoritarian to some, champion of the people to others.

FORMER BOLIVIAN president Evo Morales in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March.

Scientists team up to save endangered 'scrotum frog'

Known by the scientific name Telmatoius culeus and as the Titicaca water frog, it also has the nickname of "scrotum frog."

Telmatobius culeus, also known as the Titicaca water frog and the "scrotum frog."

Bolivian prison inmates riot over coronavirus exposure

Eight inmates in total have died with symptoms of COVID-19, according to Cox, spiking concerns that the virus will spread throughout the prison population.

Inmates protest on the rooftop of the San Sebastian prison, to demand government medical assistance, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Danilo Balderrama

Bolivia's President Anez has tested positive for coronavirus

Bolivia is due to hold general elections on Sept. 6. The elections were originally planned for May but delayed due to the pandemic.

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