This post is a bilingual one – Este post es bilingüe: I have come across these two issues for quite a long time and I decided that for today’s post I should express my opinion. And as such I will give it in Spanish and English. Comments, reactions are mostly welcome, provided they are within…
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Bolivian cuisine 101: Seven traditional dishes for Easter
This Easter, Pagina Siete had the great idea to describe Bolivian food of this important event in Catholic lives: THE CATHOLIC MENU PROHIBITS RED MEAT CONSUMPTION Seven traditional dishes for Easter The Easter menu has peculiarities in each region. Although tradition dictates that there should be 12, seven dishes are prepared on Good Friday. Although…
Read about the mood of current president after the elections’ “debacle”
After the election for Governors and Mayors in Bolivia, it was clear that something happened to the support to the coca grower ochlocracy, the masismo lost big time. Humberto Vacaflor describes superbly the mood of the president, he writes in HoyBolivia.com Moods of the President President Evo Morales is not a fool, as is well-known….
A Bolivian myth: Could an angry person prepare a spicier llajua?
Bolivian hot spice is known as llajwa or llajua, we used in most our foods, it is like the ketchup for some Americans, who eat it with all their food… Alejandra Pau reports for Pagina Siete: Could an angry person prepare a spicier llajua? A group of students from the Escuela Hotelera [Hotel School] in…
Financial Applications win at Innovalab: innovation and creativity win-win!
aPagina Siete reports: Financial Applications win at Innovalab The BISA Bank chose three groups as winners of the first innovation laboratory: Innovalab, held in La Paz. The selected applications were BISA Life, Chuspita and Lightning. The multidisciplinary groups worked strenuously for 48 hours in the creation of these technological solutions, received an economic incentive and, most…
Dramatic drop in soybean and sunflower
El Diario reports: Dramatic drop in soybean and sunflower The export of soybean and sunflower fell 28% in value terms and 23% in volume terms in January this year [2015], with regard to the same month last year, something that had not happened ten years ago. A report by the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade…
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