Clad in a brown tunic and crimson hat adorned with gold, Evo Morales emerged from a stone door in the ancient city of Tiwanaku on January 21 to address the waiting crowd and begin ...

The forced sterilization of 300,000 mostly indigenous women in Peru and the reparations still owed them are the subjects of a recently released documentary, “Scars of Deception”, t...

In Bolivia, 12-year old boys toil deep underground in the suffocating heat of dangerous silver mines...

A government incentive program that targets some of Peru’s economically poorest areas is helping to keep indigenous children in school, a new study has found...

The results of Bolivia's most recent census are raising questions due to a dramatic fall in the percentage of Bolivians who self-identify as part of an indigenous group...

A young boy sleeping on the street, an old woman begging for money-these are the people who draw Bolivian artist Rosmery Mamani Ventura's eye...

A top Peruvian government official responsible for intercultural affairs has resigned because of disputes in the government over prior consultation of indigenous communities...

For the first time in history the new Bolivian Ambassador to Ecuador is an indigenous woman, Rusena Maribel Santamaria Mamani, a former leader of a women’s agricultural union...