From PIEB, Research About Bolivia Digital Newspaper: Libera Association presents academic journal which encourages critical thinking PIEB Digital Newspaper • 02-01-2013 The Libera [Set-Free] Association presents the first issue of the academic journal “set free: the power of ideas” that impetus is given to critical thinking and aims to encourage debate about the role of…
Month: February 2013
Bolivia wins medals in the Special Olympics
Mario Perez Chavarria reports for El Deber: ATHLETES WITH DIFFERENT CONDITIONS Bolivia wins medals in the Special Olympics Featured. Santa Cruz and Cochabamba harvested five medals in South Korea; two gold and three bronze. Today they will return to the country. The Cochabambinos Carmen Rosa García and Edson Choque and from Santa Cruz Gerson Salas…
Bolivian folklore 101: Caporales dance, how it was created!
From time to time we see/read about Chile, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador folklore groups playing our music, as if it were their own. I recall been in Germany and not so long ago in Charles Square, Cambridge, MA, USA, where musical groups from other countries were playing Bolivian music as if it was originally from their…
At last, some good news for the TIPNIS
From the Facebook account of Jacqueline Patino [Patiño]: #TIPNIS good news: Finally some light! They have admitted the popular demand. Read what was decided by the Constitutional Court. The Committee of admission of the Tribunal constitutional plurinational [Plurinational Constitutional Court], resolved: 1 Revoke the resolution 59/2012 dated October 8, as registered on “folios” fs. 54-55,…
The Jesuit Missions, a wonderful place in La Chiquitania!
If you have seen “The Mission” with Robert de Niro, you may have wondered how those churches look-like; well just go to La Chiquitania in Santa Cruz, Bolivia! Tatiana Sanabria writes for Pagina Siete: Churches of the Chiquitania maintained its Jesuit charm It would seem that the time stopped in the churches of the Chiquitania….
Evo’s ruling compared with that of Hitler’s; some striking similarities!
Little by little the world and specially the Bolivians are becoming aware of who and what is governing Bolivia over the last seven years… I never thought this person could become a good president, I could never trust people engaged in an illicit crop, along with those so-called leftist who are just parasites and do…
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