LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Matilde Flores haggles with customers about the smartly tailored jackets she's selling at her street stand in central La Paz on a chilly morning. "The fabric is Chinese but ...

Chinese textile imports, worth $8.7 millon in 2010, nearly doubled to $17 millon last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics. From China, Bolivia buys everything from motorcycles ...

This is probably the most touristy part of town, but it's a great place to get information, book tours, buy Bolivian textiles and other souvenirs, and grab a meal. If you like fish, ...

This year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival featured "Indigenous Voices of the Americas" and was full of surprises — like Bolivian women skateboarding in traditional garb — bowler hats and poofy ...

Imports of used clothing, mostly from the United States, also hurt domestic production, costing Bolivia more than 160,000 textile industry jobs between 2000 and 2008 as some 32,000 mom-and-pop ...