Nearly complete official returns Wednesday showed coca activist Evo Morales winning Bolivia's presidency, getting 54.2 percent of the vote with more than 92 percent of polling places tallied. Morales ...

In a part of the world where many indigenous populations are shut out of higher education, this is the first one to be met by open doors Yamil Vera Callisaya’s grandparents were not allowed to walk on ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Indian president, took office on Sunday with a promise to lift his nation’s struggling indigenous majority out of centuries of poverty and discrimination ...

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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Indian president, took office yesterday with a promise to lift his nation’s struggling indigenous majority out of centuries of poverty and ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — As Bolivians head to the polls to elect a new president today, the leading candidate is Evo Morales, a charismatic champion of the peasant producers of coca leaf -- the raw ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Bolivian Indians threw their support behind a new constitution Sunday that is aimed at empowering their long-suffering majority ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Evo Morales, who rose from rural poverty to become a crusader for disenfranchised Indians and a fierce critic of U.S. policy, was sworn in Sunday as the first indigenous president of ...

If the records are accurate, Carmelo Flores, a Bolivian cattle and sheep herder, is the oldest living person ever documented. A government official recently presented a registry listing the Aymara ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indian president, took office on Sunday with a promise to lift his nation's struggling indigenous majority out of centuries of poverty and ...