The "pollera," a bell skirt with layered petticoats, is the traditional dress of Indigenous women in Bolivia's highlands.

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 ...

Andean Indigenous women, or “cholitas,” proudly set out to work wearing a voluminous bell-shaped skirt with layered petticoats known as “pollera” (pronounced po-YEH-rah). They insist ...

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 ...

LA PAZ, June 3 (Reuters) - Lucrecia Huayhua has survived domestic violence for most of her life. Now, with other indigenous Aymara women in Bolivia’s highlands, she is taking things into her own hands ...

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 ...