Nicole Pinto, El Deber: Chuño: The truth behind the eternal ‘potato’ Its production can take several days, between which the feet will be used as part of the process, resulting in a food that can last up to 10 years properly stored. Chuño is an ancestral food of Andean origin, widely consumed throughout the area…
Month: January 2022
70% of small and medium-sized companies have female leadership – El 70% de la pequeña y mediana empresa tiene liderazgo femenino
A multisectoral effort aims to modify regulations and public policies to break the gaps in access to financing and knowledge that exist between men and women in Bolivia. Journalist: Walter Vasquez Of every 10 micro, small and medium-sized companies in the country, seven are led by women, according to a new study by UN Women…
Drug trafficking: owner of Bolivia? – Narcotráfico: ¿dueño de Bolivia?
Editorial, El Deber: The powerful drug clan that no one saw Day after day, new revelations emerge about what appears to be a powerful clan around drug trafficker Omar Rojas Echeverría, whom in Colombia, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States, they call “Bolivian Pablo Escobar.” The most recent thing that…
“The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” – “El sentido del humor boliviano puede ser tan fino como el inglés”
Ricardo David Herrera, El Deber; Pedro Albornoz: “The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” For the second consecutive year, the writer, translator and art critic from Cochabamba won the Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz novel award. He is one of the voices that gains strength in national literature Albornoz also won…
Bolivia yielded to pressure from anti-vaccine groups and suspended the requirement for a health pass in public places
Helen Hernandez, Oicanadian: Health workers walk in the street during a door-to-door drive to vaccinate residents against COVID-19 in La Paz, Bolivia (REUTERS/Manuel Claure) The determination also provides that “Once the declaration of a Health Emergency is over, the presentation of that card will be requested again” as well as the negative PCR test. But nevertheless,…
Charango
Los Tiempos: Bolivia celebrates the National Charango Day This Saturday, January 15, Bolivia celebrates the National Day of the Charango, in commemoration of the birth of the Chuquisaca master Mauro Núñez, in 1902. On July 21, 2006, Law No. 3451 was promulgated, declaring this date as the “National Day of the Charango”. On April 6,…
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