STORY: Wearing elaborate costumes, dancers twirled through Bolivia's capital as dozens of musicians and bands performed traditional carnival dances. While much smaller than Rio's famed, flamboyant ...

Little Havana will be transformed into a display of Bolivian culture on Friday when it hosts the 10th Bolivian and International Carnival at Domino Park Plaza. The celebration, part of the recurring ...

STORY: Representing the spirit of carnival, the clown-like figure of Pepino, or cucumber in Spanish, struggles to escape the casket's confines, but can't. Dozens of dancers follow the casket, asking ...

ORURO, Bolivia (Reuters) - In a Bolivian Carnival tradition, dozens of howling-drunk miners cut the hearts from four trussed-up llamas in a dark mine tunnel lit by a bonfire, accompanied by the ...

Tens of thousands of tourists, and 20,000 musicians and dancers participate every year at the colorful four day carnival in Bolivians mountain city of Oruro. Tens of thousands of tourists, and 20,000 ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia – Police say eight people have now died from the explosion of a gas canister at a Bolivian Carnival parade, and the toll of injured has risen to at least 40. Police commandant Romel ...

Archbishop Tito Solari of Cochabamba in Bolivia has called on the faithful to avoid excessive Carnival celebrations this week. In a message to the faithful in his country, he asked Bolivians to avoid ...

ORURO, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian Fernando Flores has been making dazzling masks for the Oruro carnival for most of his life, and so did three generations of the Flores family before him. But the ...

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