Little Havana will be transformed into a display of Bolivian culture on Friday when it hosts the 10th Bolivian and International Carnival at Domino Park Plaza. The celebration, part of the recurring ...

ORURO, Bolivia (Reuters) - In a Bolivian Carnival tradition, dozens of howling-drunk miners cut the hearts from four trussed-up llamas in a dark mine tunnel lit by a bonfire, accompanied by the ...

STORY: Representing the spirit of carnival, the clown-like figure of Pepino, or cucumber in Spanish, struggles to escape the casket's confines, but can't. Dozens of dancers follow the casket, asking ...

ORURO, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian Fernando Flores has been making dazzling masks for the Oruro carnival for most of his life, and so did three generations of the Flores family before him. But the ...

Once a year, miners from the Oruro region, on the high planes of western Bolivia, gather to offer sacrifices to appease El Tio. Bolivia's miners believe the fierce ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia – Police say eight people have now died from the explosion of a gas canister at a Bolivian Carnival parade, and the toll of injured has risen to at least 40. Police commandant Romel ...

STORY: After the kiss of the carnival queen, Pepino joyfully started performing traditional dances, officially kicking off the countdown to the carnival. The annual ritual surrounding Pepino's, ...

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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Police in Bolivia say six people were killed and dozens injured when a street vendor's gas canister exploded near the route of the Carnival in the city of Orura. Deputy ...

Everyone knows Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. But smaller cities and towns around the world put on epic parties of their own. The events—which mostly began as a sort of ...