For $2 a go, tourists can purchase sticks of dynamite and experience them exploding in the “nightmarish” subterranean world created by silver miners in Potosí, one of the world’s highest cities.

The HTLV-I of contemporary Andeans from northern Chile belongs to the Transcontinental subtype; this is also found in some Japanese subpopulations, including the northern Japanese aborigine Ainu 10.

“We are very polytheistic, we believe in various gods,” says Condori. While many indigenous Andeans worship the Christian God introduced by their Spanish colonizers, most also revere the ...

But they found that only 2% of Andeans would need an alternative treatment to simvastatin, whereas 14% of Amazonians would need an alternative. The results also showed that variants in the gene ...

Out of this pride, the Andeans through the years have built a tradition that they, rather than natives of the listless lowlands or of luxury-loving Caracas, have a natural claim to run the country.

This story is part of the March 1 edition of Good Weekend.See all 13 stories. If, for whatever reason, you wanted to slide into anonymity, to lie low by the sea, swimming and eating ceviche, you ...