Bolivia's Alasitas festival is a bizarre buying frenzy that mixes ancient traditions and beliefs with modern-day religion and consumerism. Thousands turn out to buy everything they want in the ...

An Aymara Indigenous musician plays a "Tarqa," a traditional Andean flute, during the Tarqueada festival that is part of Bolivia's Bicentennial celebrations, in La Paz, Bolivia, Saturday ...

Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Every year on Jan. 24, at the Alasitas festival in La Paz, Bolivia, people come out in droves to pick up little idols that they hope will ...

A sense of calm filled the streets of Bolivia's capital, La Paz, on Thursday as Bolivians thumbed through the pages of a newspaper headline that read, “FAILED COUP.” But amid the calm on the ...

Bolivian gravediggers unearth human skulls ... the Aymara, the massive annual festival on November 8 combines Catholicism with precolonial Inca beliefs to give gratitude to the spirits occupying ...

Shutterstock At least 25 people were killed in southern Bolivia on Monday when their ... one of the biggest festivals in Latin America, collided with another bus near the city of Uyuni.

Easter was commemorated around the world with diverse traditions. In Spain, Bolivia, and Greece, communities observed the holiday through symbolic rituals—from solemn dances and intricate sand ...