Views on whether girls should marry before age 18 have radically shifted in Bolivia. But the cultural norms and attitudes ...

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 ...

It’s a rather unusual skateboard lesson. Little girls are lined up to learn to balance on a board on a half-pipe ramp. The teachers are young women from Bolivia, in their teens and 20s, wearing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — When they first ...

Bolivian skateboarders show off their moves at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., in June. In addition to doing demos, they taught skateboard basics to kids as young as 3. (Ben de ...

Skateboarding women of Bolivia wear Indigenous garb to pay homage to the strength of their mothers and grandmothers. Their motto: When you fall,... In 2022, we published a photo story about an unusual ...