Aide Choque, wearing a mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic, jumps with her skateboard during a youth talent show in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Young women called "Skates Imillas," using ...
EL ALTO, BoliviaEL ALTO, Bolivia — When they first started climbing the Andes peaks, they could hear the ice crunching under their crampons. These days, it’s the sound of melted water running beneath ...
SACABA, Bolivia -- Julia Flores Colque still sings with joy in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the five strings of a tiny Andean guitar known as the charango, despite a recorded age of almost ...
In 2022, we published a photo story about an unusual group of skateboarders. The young Bolivian women who founded Imilla Skate do their heel flips and backslides in polleras — colorful, layered skirts ...
EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — When they first started climbing the Andes peaks, they could hear the ice crunching under their crampons. These days, it’s the sound of melted water running beneath their feet ...