Potosi: Sweet Tradition Endures | La dulce tradición resiste

By Rocío Ruíz, El Potosí:

Potosí Celebrates Corpus Christi Despite the Crisis and Conflicts

This Wednesday, the traditional Potosí pastry fair will begin, although products were already being offered in the market in the preceding days.

The traditional Potosí pastry offerings ahead of the Corpus Christi holiday were already on Bolívar Street. EL POTOSÍ

Potosí is preparing to celebrate the Corpus Christi festival, an intangible cultural heritage of Potosí, expressed through religious and customary traditions and the consumption of traditional Potosí pastries that continue despite the atmosphere of conflict affecting the country.

In stores specializing in traditional Potosí pastries, sacks of chambergos had already been on display since the weekend, along with packages of sopaipillas and tawa tawas, which families were already seeking out.

According to vendors, the ingredients used to make the traditional Corpus Christi pastries have increased in price, a situation attributed to the blockades that have prevented food supplies from entering for several weeks.

Despite the rise in ingredient costs, the Potosí market once again displayed its traditional pastry offerings this year.

Although shoppers were not lining up as they did in previous years, there was still a noticeable presence of people looking for these products.

On the one hand, the blockades are preventing food from entering, but they are also hindering the shipment of goods out of the region. In previous years, when highways were free of conflict, people would form lines at pastry shops and later at transportation companies to send Potosí delicacies to relatives and friends in other cities, both within Bolivia and abroad.

However, the persistence of the blockades has discouraged many families from purchasing these products for shipping, though not from buying them for consumption on the night before Corpus Christi and on the day of the celebration itself.

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