The Tsimané people boast the “healthiest hearts ... estimated 17,000 Tsimané living deep in the lowland Bolivian jungle. This isolated indigenous community stays physically active throughout ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – In Bolivia, the killing of an Indigenous leader and the ensuing detention of another Indigenous man for being allegedly responsible for the crime have mobilized members of ...

By Maxwell Radwin Deforestation in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco, driven largely by agribusiness and infrastructure development, ...

Bolivia (Niko Vorobyov) “Ending the U.N. treaty ban on coca and the condemnation of millennia-old Andean-Amazonian cultural practices, has been a long-standing demand from Indigenous peoples and ...

In December 2005, Evo Morales made history in Bolivia when he became the country ... America and has the highest proportion of indigenous people on the continent – they had been marginalised ...

The largest carnival celebration in Chile reflects a long history of Indigenous resistance to colonization—a struggle that ...

Eight thousand people are standing guard for former president Evo ... Paramilitary attacks, then mass arrests, and pursuit of Bolivia’s indigenous leadership, who are campesinos, ended the blockades.

Throughout the highlands of Peru and Bolivia indigenous and many non-indigenous people fear that rural paths are haunted by the fat-stealer, a malevolent figure who lies in wait for nocturnal ...

See All Key Ideas Between 600 and 1,500 years ago, Indigenous people of the seasonally flooded savannas in the Bolivian Amazon created an advanced farming system that allowed them to grow corn ...

The election of Evo Morales in 2005 as Bolivia’s first indigenous president ... South America and has the highest proportion of indigenous people on the continent – they had been marginalised ...