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 ...

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

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 ...

Revelers dance during the opening of the Carnival season with the symbolic unearthing of Pepino, a character who represents joy, in La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025.

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 ...

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