Early results from Bolivia's October 16 judicial elections indicate large-scale voiding of ballots. Observers say the vote amounts to the first electoral rebuff of President Evo Morales since he took office.
El alcalde describe cómo ha convertido a Tarija en un modelo de buen gobierno durante sus 11 años de gobierno, así como el logro en construir un puente entre los sectores público y privado.
"In both Ecuador and Bolivia, the rhetoric of political inclusion is crashing into the politics of identity and collective rights," writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini for The Huffington Post.
Indigenous Bolivians from the country's Amazonian lowlands are fighting a presidential plan for a transoceanic highway.
An April 2009 raid by Bolivian counterterrorist forces is again being called into question.
Protests in southern Chile over proposed fuel increases cast a spotlight on rising energy costs and echoed recent Bolivian demonstrations.