EL ALTO, Bolivia (Reuters Life!) - Not content with building something of a Catholic empire in the poor Bolivian city of El Alto, German priest Sebastian Obermaier still aims to double his network ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the largest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis, you can directly go to the 5 Countries with the ...

Buenos Aires, Argentina -- Life in the slums is a far cry from the picturesque backdrop of Buenos Aires, but it's that family life that Francis knows best and those people who touched him most ...

The Country Partnership Framework (CPF) 2023-2026 outlines the World Bank Group's (WBG) work program in Bolivia, focusing on three development priorities: increasing climate and economic resilience, ...

In the slums of Rio de Janeiro, poor communities have to choose between exposure to COVID-19 and working to feed their families.

Bolivia's new president has ventured into the slum city at the heart of the country's popular revolt, appealing for calm one ...

slum dwellers shouted as thousands lined up across El Alto, where cramped tenement homes of adobe blocks rise precariously on a frigid, wind-swept plain overlooking La Paz and snowcapped Andes peaks.

Over half a million families live in 864 slums and irregular settlements in metropolitan Buenos Aires surrounding Argentina’s capital. Of this number 66% have over fifteen years since founded ...

EL ALTO, Bolivia – Bulldozers cleared the last barricades on the main road into La Paz and trucks rolled in Saturday loaded with gasoline and produce, signaling the end of a monthlong blockade ...

The “slum pope” chose to visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay specifically because they are among the poorest and most marginal nations of a region that claims 40 percent of the world’s ...