This is just the proof we need to understand: Bolivia’s private sector can produce international top quality products, I welcome Julio Torrico (Billy Castillo Group) to The Hall of Bolivian Fame!! Leyla Anas writes for El Deber: A Baute musician uses Bolivian instruments The Bolivian music industry causes interest of specialists and exports. The drummer of…
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Someone to be proud: Wilmer Urrelo, a winning Bolivian writer!
Jorge Soruco writes for La Razon: “It is surprising that someone should notice Bolivian literature, almost invisible” Wilmer Urrelo – Bolivian writer won the Anna Seghers Literature Award 2012 which is given annually to a Latin American author and another German. The award is endowed with more than $10 thousand and will be delivered on…
A Bolivian within the best 20 photographers in the region! Wara Vargas
UPDATE as of November 23, 2012: Wara won the second prize!! For that Spanish news, please click here! Congratulations to Wara Vargas!! and welcome to The Hall of Bolivian Fame; Anahi Cazas reports for Pagina Siete: American contest chose the work of Wara Vargas Bolivian is among the 20 best photographers in the region CREDIT:…
UNESCO’s recommendation to take care of one of our best archaeological sites
It is not the first time that UNESCO gives recommendations, like they did for Potosi [cerro rico – “rich hill” which is still suffering deterioration] and for Tiahuanaco in 2010, please see this link for that earlier recommendation. Now in 2012 El Deber printed EFE report, here excerpts from that news: UNESCO encouraged Bolivia to hire…
Ana Maria Vera and Classic Bolivia Foundation
We are fortunate that Ana Maria Vera decided to stay in Bolivia for a longer period of time. She is pushing for the Classic Bolivia Foundation and to place our country in the international music arena. Pagina Siete reports: In an unforgettable evening, the famous Bolivian-Dutch pianist Ana Maria Vera dazzled El Alto audience with a…
Tambo Quirquincho, Bolivian architectonic treasure
It is a beautiful building and worth preserving, despite recent “political ideology” that pushes to curse, ban and forget our identity. We cannot deny our western civilization culture, our mestizo heritage and majority of the Bolivian population. La Prensa did a report on Tambo Quirquincho: During the colonial era, the Museum hosted the indigenous traders….
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