By El Deber: The selection comes from the specialized gastronomy magazine Food & Wine. In its review, it highlights the use of Amazonian ingredients as well as a menu centered on Bolivia’s biodiversity. The restaurant Arami is among the best in the world. The specialized magazine Food & Wine, a benchmark in gastronomic culture, places it…
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The End of Centralist Hegemony | El fin de la hegemonía centralista
Editorial, El Dia: New Social Contract: Bolivia is no longer the country designed at the desks of central power. The most recent subnational elections did more than reshuffle authorities; they exposed a deeper rupture: the exhaustion of the centralist model as the organizing axis of the State. What emerged from the ballot box was not…
Public Firms Crisis | Crisis de empresas públicas
By Erbol: CALLS IT A SHAME Government reveals bankruptcies and losses of public companies: “they left us a Molotov cocktail” The OFEP made the presentation. The Government, through the Office for the Oversight of Public Enterprises (OFEP), presented this Thursday a report on the financial situation of state-owned companies, which shows sustained losses, low generation…
Bolivia advances in the cacao value chain | Bolivia avanza en cadena de valor del cacao
By El Diario:4 With the aim of strengthening the cacao production chain, the Government of Bolivia, international organizations, and Non-Governmental Organizations carried out a strategic institutional mapping to coordinate joint policies that project the competitiveness of Bolivian cacao both domestically and globally. This progress took place at last Monday’s meeting at Palacio Chico, where the…
Fuel Crisis or System Collapse? | ¿Crisis de combustible o colapso del sistema?
Editorial, Bolivian Thoughts: Bolivia’s Fuel Crisis Is a Political Crisis in Disguise Bolivia is not facing a temporary fuel shortage. It is facing the collapse of an economic model—and the political system still hesitates to say so. The turmoil inside YPFB, marked by leadership instability and an inability to guarantee diesel and gasoline supply, is…
Roncal’s Musical Bridge | El puente musical de Simeón Roncal
By Iván Ramos, Erbol: The secret of Simeón Roncal: how the Bolivian cueca was born between charangos and sacred music Simeón Tadeo Roncal Gallardo did not only compose cuecas. He built a bridge—between the rhythms of northern Potosí, European classical music, and the baroque cathedral tradition that still resonated in Sucre. That combination—which today defines…
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