Nicole Vargas, Opinion: The brand works with more than 220 artisans from El Alto with whom it created its new collection of handmade fabrics in cotton, baby alpaca and silk. La Paz is mystical, it is chaos, it is contrast. The chola from La Paz is strength, is history, is resistance. These characteristics and others…
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YUNGAS road
Travel, BBC: The world’s most dangerous road (Image credit: Harald von Radebrecht/Alamy) By Shafik Meghji A drive down Bolivia’s infamous “Death Road” takes travellers into a world where two resources have provoked fascination, misunderstanding and controversy for centuries: coca and gold. After cresting the 4,800m Cumbre pass, the trufi (shared taxi) plunged into a cloud of swirling mist….
Irohito Urus Indians: from fishing to robotics in Bolivia – Indígenas Irohito Urus: de la pesca a la robótica en Bolivia
Por PAOLA FLORES, AP News: IROHITO URUS, Bolivia (AP) — Three students from the Irohito Urus ethnic group in the Bolivian highlands have created a robot with the head of an Andean cat using materials from their environment such as reeds to disinfect surfaces such as cell phones and raise awareness among care to combat…
CHARQUINI: Receding Glacier ‘Doomed to Disappear’ – Glaciar en retroceso ‘condenado a desaparecer’
Reuters, USNews: In Bolivia, a Battle Over a Receding Glacier ‘Doomed to Disappear’ Mountain guides in the Cholita climbers group pass in front of a no trespassing sign during the inauguration of tourist season at the Charquini glacier, as scientists and climbers battle over the future of the controversial lure for tourists, outside of El…
Museum of Instruments – Museo de Instrumentos
Página Siete: The heritage of the Museum of Instruments is cataloged El patrimonio del Museo de Instrumentos es catalogado Jorge Soruco / La Paz The first phase of the registration project was completed, with the support of the United States Embassy. Pre-Hispanic, string and percussion pieces were analyzed. Jorge Soruco / La Paz The Museum…
Creative Market – Market Creativo
Las emprendedoras que estarán presentes en la actividad que promueve Market Creativo. The entrepreneurs who will be present at the activity promoted by Market Creativo. | Hernán Andia Edwin Fernandez, Los Tiempos: Creative Market bursts into force in Cochabamba With the slogan of promoting talent and the national economy, the twentieth version of Market Creativo…
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