Navidad – 2020 – Christmas

Luis Escobar, Página Siete: Jesus children with a doctor’s suit and chinstrap to ask for 0 infections Craftswomen make biosecurity accessories to dress the images. Some lost family members to the pandemic or caught the virus. “The Covid-19 pandemic took our family, brothers and friends. I lost my son and it hurts a lot, “said…

Confusión – Disarray

Lupe Cajias, El Deber: Cultures between two discourses What can Bolivians expect from the new Ministry of Cultures, Decolonization and Depatriarchalization? The act of possession counted on the presence of the deep multicultural and multilingual nation; beautiful fabrics, beautiful music, lots of hugs. The second look is more worrisome: why was Sabina Orellana Cruz named…

Repartijas – Distributions

Claudia Eid, Los Tiempos: Of expenses and “absurd” distributions The one that was the Ministry of Cultures never worked quite well and that is because it is not understood what is the profile of who should lead that portfolio or, in reality, because the Government of the day is not really interested in culture. It…

Rosmery Mamani

Drawing the Dispossessed: Bolivian Artist Rosmery Mamani Ventura A young boy sleeping on the street, an old woman begging for money-these are the people who draw Bolivian artist Rosmery Mamani Ventura’s eye. At just 27 she is a rising star whose intense connection with people living on the margins of society leads to extraordinarily rich…