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Bolivian house with 'devil sculptures' spooks highland city

Sculptures of horned devils adorn the house of Bolivian miner David Choque in El Alto, Bolivia February 16, 2022. [Reuters]

A Bolivian miner has covered his house with sculptures of long-horned devils and other scary creatures, intended as a playful nod to the country's colonial past but which has instead shocked some neighbors who fear a link to occult rituals.

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