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Rodrigo Urquiola wins the José Nogales International Short Story Award
EFE/Huelva reports for Pagina Siete: The story “Ashly”, by the Bolivian writer and journalist Rodrigo Urquiola, has won the XXV edition of the International Short Story Award José Nogales, organized by the Diputación de Huelva (Spain). The jury, composed by Juan Villa, Hipólito González and Francisco Silvera, has highlighted in this story “its high literary…
Tourism 101: Lonely Planet’s Bolivia: South America’s diverse and intriguing jewel
More than 40-thousand dancers and musicians take part in the annual Festival of the Feast of the Lord of Power through the streets of Bolivia’s capital each May. Superlative in its natural beauty, rugged, vexing, complex and slightly nerve-racking, Bolivia is one of South America’s most diverse and intriguing nations. ADVENTURE Bolivia is not for…
New protected area in Amazon announced
Bruno Vander Velde reports for Human Nature, a Conservation International blog; A sprawling corner of the Amazon basin has been designated a protected area. Last week, the Bolivian municipality of Ixiamas issued a law establishing the Bajo Madidi Municipal Conservation and Management Area in the country’s northwestern region, near the Peruvian border. At 15,300 square…
Apple Releases two Spanish Ads focused on the iPhone XS Documenting the lives of Bolivian Women Wrestlers
Patiently Apple reports: Apple has two stores in Brazil (01 and 02) and one in Sante fe, Mexico City with a second one in the works in Antara Fashion Hall in Ciudad de Mexico. Yesterday Apple released two new iPhone ads in Spanish about Bolivian Female Wrestlers. The first new ad covers the Flying Cholitas which is an…
Witches’ Market declared heritage
Pagina Siete reports: The Municipal Council of La Paz yesterday declared the La Paz Witches Market as the city’s cultural heritage. Yesterday was approved unanimously by the councilors present, the Municipal Law that declares intangible cultural heritage to that area of the city. The rule, of three articles, mentions as components of the Witches’ Market…
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