University of La Paz.

La Paz, Brazilian Embassy, 1986 88, Cultural and Consular Affairs

TIPNIS march arrives in La Paz in October 2011.

At an elevation of , it is one of the highest major airports in the world.

Police seize 2 tons of uranium in Sopocachi, La Paz, on August 28.

With a reformist regime in La Paz, it is difficult not to expect tensions with the Bush administration.

Bolivia has 5 Alliances Françaises in all the main centers of population Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Sucre, Tarija.

From May 17 to 23, 2013, the first Latin American Congress of Community Living Cultures will invade the streets of La Paz, Bolivia.

What initially started as a small suburb of the city of La Paz, the seat of government located 4,070 meters above sea level, it became its own municipality in 1985.

Indigenous organizations, TIPNIS inhabitants and their supporters began a new long march on April 27, 2012, from Trinidad to La Paz demanding an end to the road project.

Studies also cite an alarming number of procedural investigations (775 cases in the La Paz and Santa Cruz districts alone, between 2008 and 2012) against women suspected of having an illegal abortion, who are overwhelmingly poor and indigenous.

The urban population, already 70 and growing rapidly, has begun withdrawing their support from Morales, except in La Paz, El Alto, and Oruro, and in the most unionized sectors.

In October 2011, after a large march of indigenous peoples and protestors arrived in La Paz, President Evo Morales passed a bill declaring the TIPNIS intangible or untouchable , which was understood by environmental campaigners and indigenous organizations as the final word on the issue.

LA PAZ Mother Earth is not for sale, the Bolivian representative told last year s United Nations climate change conference in Doha. But environmental policy in Bolivia itself undermines the government s efforts to assert moral superiority over other countries.

On August 28, 2012, Bolivian authorities seized two tons of solid material, presumably uranium or radioactive minerals, that were being transported from a property at a central district of La Paz, close to a number of diplomatic offices, under no security or protection measures.