Five people were rescued after they survived 36 hours atop a plane in an alligator-infested swamp in the Bolivian Amazon after they were forced to make an emergency landing, local officials and ...

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As the car nears Lauca Eñe, a town in the Bolivian tropics, it swerves around piles of earth. Then come sandbags, palisades and a thousand people armed with sharpened sticks. This is the ragtag ...

Located in the central part of the continent, Bolivia has a varied terrain spanning the Andes Mountains, the Atacama Desert and Amazon Basin rainforest. It is also home to Lake Titicaca ...