Nor Yungas, Bolivia —By the time President Evo Morales announced his resignation on Sunday, the country had been in turmoil for three weeks. Flanked by his vice president and the head of the ...

YUNGAS, BOLIVIA - DECEMBER 21: A roadside cross, one of hundreds, indicates where a vehicle went off the cliff on the road connecting the city of La Paz to the Coroico in the North Yungas December ...

There's a grim reason why Bolivia's North Yungas road is more often referred to as the "Death Road": it has been estimated that every year between 200 to ...

Regularly named as the world's most dangerous route, North Yungas Road was cut into the side of the Cordillera Oriental Mountain chain in the 1930s. Many sections are unpaved and lack guardrails.

LOS YUNGAS, Bolivia, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Bolivia's decision to open an alternate route to its historic 'Death Road' - a serpentine dirt path across the towering Andes hills known for its deadly ...

A drive down Bolivia's infamous "Death Road" takes travellers into a world where two resources have provoked fascination, misunderstanding and controversy for centuries: coca and gold.

AT least 13 people have died in a mudslide along a stretch of highway in central Bolivia's Yungas region. The incident occurred Monday afternoon about 200km from La Paz on the highway linking the ...

Here in the idyllic Nor Yungas region north of the cloud-high capital La Paz, ... Bolivia has 24,500 hectares under coca cultivation, an increase of 7.0 percent in a year.

While Yungas is the region that has historically grown coca leaf that is chewed by Bolivia’s indigenous communities, Chaparé arose as an alternative production center in the 1980s, primarily growing ...

High in the picturesque heart of Bolivia lies the Old Yungas Road, a perilous route often dubbed "Death Road" due to its history of fatalities, claiming an annual average of 200 lives.