For a month every year, thousands of Bolivians throng the stalls of an unusual market in La Paz, shopping for tiny toy houses ...

Bolivian shopkeeper Cristobal Quispe's humble brick home teeters precariously on the slope of an unstable hillside in La Paz, near the edge of a collapsed road. The landscape around him is ...

EL ALTO, Bolivia (Reuters) - In Bolivia's highland ... a precipitous drop inches (cm) from the houses, known locally as "suicide homes" for the high risk the inhabitants take.

The problem is not unique to Bolivia, say experts ... recently had to leave as a deluge of mud swallowed up their homes. Like hers, Quispe's neighbor's house was left standing, but now leans ...

This year, with Bolivia in economic and political turmoil ... while a stack of fake bills costs about $2. A house can fetch anything from $10 to $30 depending on the size and ornateness ...

For a month every year, thousands of Bolivians throng the stalls of an unusual market in La Paz, shopping for tiny toy houses and wads of fake cash -- substitutes for the real-life objects their ...