Bolivia is facing growing unrest as nationwide road blockades disrupt the supply of fuel, food and essential medicines across the country. The escalating crisis has raised concerns about shortages, economic disruption and public hardship. Amid mounting pressure, Ernesto Justiniano is set to replace Marcelo Salinas as Defence Minister, adding a new political dimension to an already tense situation. 


Bolivia Protests Intensify: 'We Are Tired Of Living Like This' 

Anti-Government Protests Intensify Across Bolivia 

Violence has erupted in Bolivia’s capital as protesters and police clashed amid escalating unrest. Explosions were reported during confrontations in the streets, with tensions rapidly intensifying as demonstrations spread across key areas. Authorities have moved to contain the chaos while concerns grow over political instability, public anger, and worsening security conditions in the country. The clashes mark another major flashpoint in Bolivia’s ongoing unrest crisis.

Explosions In Bolivian Capital As Protesters And Police Engage In Clashes

The new center-right President Rodrigo Paz last week announced an end to the subsidies used by leftist governments to freeze fuel prices for 20 years. Miners in helmets took to the streets of the administrative capital La Paz on Wednesday, while riot police blocked them from entering the main city square.

Bolivia Crisis: Protesters Clash With Police in La Paz Over Fuel Subsidy Cuts

The new center-right President Rodrigo Paz last week announced an end to the subsidies used by leftist governments to freeze fuel prices for 20 years. Miners in helmets took to the streets of the administrative capital La Paz on Wednesday, while riot police blocked them from entering the main city square.


Bolivia: Protesters clash with police in La Paz over fuel subsidy cuts 

In La Paz city of Bolivia, thousands participated in the festival know as 'The Feast of Lord of Great Power'. Watch in for more details!

Bolivians celebrate colorful 'Lord Jesus of Great Power' festival in La Paz

Bolivia is experiencing a drought where seven regions have been affected. The government has blamed it on La Nina climatic oscillation and in Bolivia's rural area which is around 100 kilometers Southwest of Highland city La Paz. In the latest, wildfires have blanketed the sky of Bolivia's capital with thick clouds of smoke.

WION Climate Tracker: Climate crisis in Bolivia as smoke covers capital

Meanwhile, Bolivia is experiencing a drought where seven regions have been affected. The government has blamed it on La Nina climatic oscillation and in Bolivia's rural area which is around 100 kilometers Southwest of Highland city La Paz.

WION Climate Tracker: Bolivians pray for rain as they face acute water shortage

Streets of the Bolivian capital of La Paz, were full of colours were full of music as thousands of dancers turned out to celebrate the traditional festival. As many as 62 dancing groups representing fraternities participated in the event.

Bolivia: Festivities return to streets of La Paz; students celebrate traditional folk fair

A couple in Bolivia with a taste for the extravagant tied the knot on top of the Illimani Mountain, the highest mountain in the Cordillera Real of western Bolivia.

Bolivian couple marry atop majestic Illimani mountain

A pageant for Indigenous women in Bolivia ended in victory Friday for a 28 year old medical student, Nelly Mamani Chambi. She was awarded the title of "Miss Cholita 2021". Contestants wore clear plastic face coverings during the event to guard against the coronavirus.

Miss Cholita 2021 crowned in La Paz

Balconies have become the new performance space for Bolivia's National Symphony Orchestra, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of concert halls.

Bolivian orchestra delights with balcony concert for pandemic respite

Streets were turned to rivers in Bolivia on Monday (January 18) after devastating floods swept through residential areas, forcing locals to salvage what they can from homes.

Bolivians scramble to save belongings as floods turn streets to rivers

Carrying figurines of baby Jesus, Bolivian Catholics flocked to church on Wednesday (January 6), to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany with a traditional blessing.

Bolivians take baby Jesus figurines for blessing on Three Kings Day

Helping homeless Bolivians during the holidays has become a tradition for one La Paz church, but this year, the coronavirus pandemic has forced volunteers to curtail their support.

Christmas spirit for homeless Bolivians, despite pandemic restrictions

Bolivian artisans have given their traditional Christmas figurines of baby Jesus a COVID twist this year by dressing them up in masks and other protective clothes. Their makers say the figurines are a way of warning the public not to let down their guard against the pandemic during the holiday season.

Baby Jesus figurines wear face masks in Bolivia

Bolivians celebrated on Saturday (November 7) an ancient tradition rooted in indigenous practices where people adorn and honour skulls, called "natitas", which they believe bring them good fortune and protection.

Bolivia's Day of the Skulls brings out the living and the dead

Feminist activists dressed the monument of Isabel la Catolica in Bolivia's capital La Paz as a "cholita," indigenous women, traditionally from rural Aymara and Quechua communities.

Feminists dress statue of Isabel la Catolica as 'cholita;' Columbus statue is vandalised

Irma Arancibia decided she would give birth to her seventh child at home, part of a trend in the Andean country where soon-to-be-mothers are avoiding hospitals filled beyond capacity with COVID-19 patients.

With Bolivian hospitals filled with COVID cases, Mums choose home birthing

A woman and her son in Bolivia's capital La Paz found an outlet to the isolation brought about by the coronavirus lockdown by befriending a trio of birds known as caranchos, or southern crested caracaras, who show up at their 18th-floor window ledge where they provide them with food and water.

Bolivian birds find respite in the urban jungle

Desperate families in Bolivia are turning to makeshift graves to bury their loved ones, with cemetery space at a premium as the coronavirus pandemic keeps the South American nation in its grip.

Bolivian families turn to makeshift graves as cemeteries fill during pandemic

The rich get smart while the poor fall behind. That is the concern in Bolivia as the pandemic takes classes online and exposes the country's digital divide, sharpening stark socio-economic divisions in one of Latin America's poorest countries.

Online education deepens digital divide in impoverished Bolivia

With no vaccine available and an ever-encroaching death toll amid the pandemic, indigenous Bolivians are turning to rituals and customs to ward off coronavirus in the South American country.

Sweet coronavirus treats go up in flames as Bolivians make offerings to ward off COVID-19

They say necessity is the mother of invention and two disabled Bolivians used their wits to find a new way to make a living even as income dried up for countless Bolivians during the coronavirus pandemic.

Innovation in high gear: disabled Bolivians chase new careers as delivery drivers

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