Latest La Paz Stories
By Antonio Alcantar LA PAZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane John rumbled up Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Saturday after roughing up this tourist port overnight with wicked winds and torrential rain that knocked out power. Rescue workers began assessing damages and possible deaths in La Paz -- where about 200,000 people live -- when daylight broke. "The hurricane passed close by, or right over us, and cut power to the entire city," La Paz civil protection worker Adrian Romero...
By Noel Randewich and Armando Tovar LOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane John roared up Mexico's Baja California peninsula early on Saturday, after forcing thousands of tourists and residents in this posh beach resort into shelters to escape high winds and lashing rain. But the Los Cabos resort, popular with U.S. tourists and famed for its beaches and Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses, dodged a bullet when John did not make a direct hit. Rescue workers said their main worries were...
By Noel Randewich and Armando Tovar LOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane John roared up Mexico's Baja California peninsula early on Saturday, after forcing thousands of tourists and residents in this posh beach resort into shelters to escape high winds and lashing rain. But the Los Cabos resort, popular with U.S. tourists and famed for its beaches and Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses, dodged a bullet when John did not make a direct hit. Rescue workers said their main worries were...
By Noel Randewich LOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane John slammed into the Baja California peninsula on Friday night, forcing thousands of tourists and residents in this posh beach resort into shelters to escape high winds, angry seas and lashing rain. But the Los Cabos resort, popular with U.S. tourists and famed for its beaches and Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses, dodged a bullet as John did not make a direct hit, veering off to the east as it made landfall. Concern now...
By Noel Randewich LOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane John slammed into the Baja California peninsula on Friday night, forcing thousands of tourists and residents in this posh beach resort into shelters to escape high winds, angry seas and lashing rain. But the Los Cabos resort, popular with U.S. tourists and famed for its beaches and Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses, dodged a bullet as John did not make a direct hit, veering off to the east as it made landfall. Concern now...
By Mario Roque LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales has scrapped a proposal to drop religious education from the school curriculum because of opposition by the country's powerful Catholic Church. About 80 percent of Bolivians are Catholics and the leftist government's proposal to replace religion lessons with ethics classes has been one of the few issues to spark controversy as the country prepares to rewrite its constitution. Bolivians go to the polls next Sunday...
By Helen Popper LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Less than 130 years ago, Bolivia had a stretch of Pacific coastline. Today, the landlocked, poor South American country is thinking more than ever about getting it back. Every March 23, Bolivians reflect upon the loss of its mineral-rich coastal territory to Chile in a 19th-century war, the source of a bitter grudge against the neighboring country. But the mood was unusually optimistic in commemorative events on Thursday as thousands gathered...
By Helen PopperCHACALTAYA, Bolivia -- Times are hard for the world's highest ski resort, a dizzy 17,388 feet (5,300 metres) above sea level in the Bolivian Andes. Its glacier is melting so fast synthetic snow is seen as the only way to save it.Scientists say Chacaltaya's diminished piste could disappear altogether within five years due to climate change and, though this humble ski center is no Whistler or Chamonix, it is the only one the poor South American country has got."This has been...
By Mario Roque LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Twin bomb blasts tore through two budget hotels and killed two people in La Paz overnight and Bolivian police said a 27-year-old American admitted carrying out the attacks on Wednesday. Bolivian police identified the suspects as Lestat Claudius de Orleans y Montevideo of California and Alda Ribeiro Acosta, 45, of Uruguay. Local media reported the man had mental health problems and police said he had been using a number of different names....
By Mario Roque LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Twin bomb blasts tore through two budget hotels and killed two people in La Paz overnight, and Bolivian officials said they questioned two foreigners, including one American, in connection with the attacks on Wednesday. Local television reports, citing police sources, said the American was a 27-year-old Californian man with mental health problems who was suspected of links to other violent incidents. The U.S. Embassy in La Paz confirmed that...
