I welcome Marco Antonio Guzman Rocabado to The Hall of Bolivian Fame! Los Tiempos reports: Toxic Wins Award in Canada The poster of graphic artist paceño [from La Paz] Marco Antonio Guzman Rocabado, aka Toxic Marco, was selected as picture of the 38 Montreal Film Festival 2014 to be held in August. The results of…
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Bolivian piece is among the best in the world requiems: Pablo Mendieta
I welcome Pablo Mendieta to The Hall of Bolivian Fame!! Margarita Palacios reports for Pagina Siete: THIS IS PART OF A REQUIEM BREVIS, COMPOSED BY PABLO MENDIETA Bolivian piece is among the best in the world requiems The piece was created in tribute to journalist Daniel Pearl, who died in 2012 for the terrorist attacks…
Rosario Arce shares her Bolivian beats with Canada
I have the pleasure to welcome Rosario Arce into The Hall of Bolivian Fame! Lisa Evans writes for the Canadian Immigrant: Rosario Arce shares her Bolivian beats with Canada Rosario Arce loves traditional Latin music. “There’s a lot of culture and history with the lyrics and the instruments,” she says. Even before the Bolivian-born singer…
Bolivian ruling ochlocratic government in carnival!
This blog has the purpose of translating from Spanish news, the best articles that can depict where are we going, not only politically, economically but as well as our heroes, our entrepreneurs, our champions. In the middle of the 2014 carnival, I thought there would be no other way to demonstrate current centralist ochlocratic government…
Bolivia Archaeology 101: Qillqantiji featuring over 220 cave paintings
Gabriel Diez Lacunza reports for Pagina Siete: EXPERT FINISH RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION WORK Qillqantiji featuring over 220 cave paintings Archaeology The site, located in the town of Peñas, has paintings from the formative, pre-Tiwanaku period, to colonial. Over 220 cave paintings of flames, masks, two-headed birds and human figures, created between the formative period before…
Bolivia Music 101: Chiquitos and the music by Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa writes in El Pais, Madrid after his recent visit to Santa Cruz: Chiquitos and the music The first Jesuits who came to this remote corner of eastern Bolivia saw the houses of the Indians with very small houses, that baptized the entire region with the name of Chiquitos [tiny]. Father Jose de…
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