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 ...

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 ...

The 64-kilometre road descends some 3,500 metres and is just three metres wide in some places.There are 200 hairpin bends and ...

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.

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.

Yungas growers are keen to distinguish themselves from another, more recent, producing region, Chapare (center), a stronghold of former president Evo Morales (2006-2019), himself a former grower ...

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 cliffs - has led to a resurgence of ...