Dia Mate scored an early victory at the Reina Hispanoamericana 2025 pageant in Bolivia, topping the “traje tipico” (national costume) contest, which featured an intricate gold salakot (native ...

This year, with Bolivia in economic and political turmoil ... She did not buy a single boliviano -- the national currency that has lost some 40 percent of its value to the US dollar since 2023.

For a month every year, thousands of Bolivians throng the stalls of an unusual market in La Paz, shopping for tiny toy houses and wads of fake cash -- substitutes for the real-life objects their ...

"The dollar is disappearing in Bolivia," said Vilma Mariaca, a homemaker who said she bought some fake greenbacks "in the hopes that we will have more" real ones. She did not buy a single boliviano -- ...

With the largest indigenous population in South America and some of its most spectacular mountainous landscapes, Bolivia is a ...

The abode looks out on half of a park where children used to play ... The problem is not unique to Bolivia, say experts, who blame poor urban planning and a lack of investment in resilience ...

Days before the coronation, the Philippines’ representative, Dia Mate of Cavite, won the Mejor Traje Típico award during the national costume competition of the Reina Hispanoamericana pageant in ...