Isabel Velasco writes and remembers beautifully in El Diario. Tram pictures were dowloaded from the internet: The charm of streetcars in La Paz To protect us from the evil of the “micro”, “minibus” and “radio taxis” that suffer the paceños, we evoke nostalgically to the friendly and cheerful trams, silent witnesses of a thousand and…
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Anarchy! 6 Dead of Asphyxiation in Bolivia Protest
AP reports for ABC News: 6 Dead of Asphyxiation in Bolivia Protest By Paola Flores, ASSOCIATED PRESS Six city workers died of asphyxiation and 28 people were injured Wednesday when protesters set fire to part of a municipal building in the opposition-governed highlands city of El Alto near Bolivia’s capital. Two men and two women…
Alasitas: Bolivia’s festival of miniature
BBC reports: Bolivia’s Alasitas festival is a bizarre buying frenzy that mixes ancient traditions and beliefs with modern-day religion and consumerism. Thousands turn out to buy everything they want in the coming year, in miniature form, in the hope that the gods will convert their dreams into life-sized reality. Imagine you could go to the…
At least nine dead in bus crash in Bolivia
EFE reports for Foxnews Latino: At least nine dead in bus crash in Bolivia [photo is from El Deber, to read that in Spanish, please use this link http://m.eldeber.com.bo/bolivia/nueve-muertos-tragico-accidente-yungas.html%5D At least nine people died and four were injured on Monday when the bus in which a Peruvian band was apparently riding went off the road…
Alasita, the La Paz party who wandered all over the city
Randy Chavez reports for Pagina Siete: Alasita, the La Paz party who wandered all over the city It started in Churumbamba, with the indigenous people, arrived in San Francisco and even the Plaza Murillo. Before the Spanish arrived to the Chuquiago valley, what is now the city of La Paz, the Aymara and Quechua Indians…
Bolivia’s growing gourmet scene: Welcome to the high life in the Andes
The Independent reports: Bolivia’s growing gourmet scene: Welcome to the high life in the Andes ’Bolivia’ and ‘gourmet’ are two words seldom seen together. Not any more, says Sarah Gilbert Tender pork neck, millefeuille of crackling, the sweetness of peaches offset by the tang of red chillies. All washed down with a spicy local syrah….
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