President Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia says he will scrap a ream of taxes in one of his first moves since becoming the nation’s ...

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But vaccination rates have since slipped below the 95% coverage rate needed to stop outbreaks. Large outbreaks in Venezuela ...

Former central bank director and economist José Gabriel Espinoza was sworn in Sunday as Bolivia’s new finance minister, tasked with stabilizing an economy battered by rampant inflation, shortages, and ...

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I’m looking into how ...

The player who leads Lancaster Mennonite in scoring wasn’t much of a factor last season. He said his role was to “keep team morale up.” Reuben Gingrich has made considerable strides since then. Many ...

Attending public school in Washington, DC, in the 1980s and ’90s, I was taught to embrace my ethnicity—Pennsylvania German with ancestors who emigrated from what is now Switzerland—among other ...

After nearly 500 years of mining, Cerro Rico, the Bolivian mountain whose silver financed the Spanish Empire, is experiencing increasingly frequent and severe cave-ins. With silver prices at decade ...

Bolivia's first conservative president-elect in 20 years, Rodrigo Paz, injected a sharp note of realism into his plans to tackle an economic crisis Monday, a day after his surprise electoral victory ...