Editorial, Página Siete: Stop killing the Pilcomayo It is not new that the waste from Potosi mining, especially that practiced by cooperative members without any control or ecological awareness, is contaminating the Pilcomayo River, a source of life and food that runs through no more and no less than three countries: Bolivia , Argentina and…
Category: Potosi
What if the Mint House did not exist? | ¿Y si la Casa de Moneda no existiera?
Juan Jose Toro, El Potosi: “El Escorial de América” turns 249 this July 31. Have you ever imagined what Potosí would be like without its Mint House? Thinking of the Imperial Villa without its impressive architectural monument is almost impossible, since it would be as much as imagining it without its Cerro Rico. The building…
Colegio Pichincha, Potosí
Juan José Toro Montoya, El Potosi: Portada del colegio Pichincha. | Facade of the Pichincha school. El decreto que dio lugar al funcionamiento del Pichincha. | The decree that gave rise to the functioning of Pichincha. Bolívar se afeitó el bigote en Potosí. | Bolívar shaved off his mustache in Potosí. Guardia de honor del…
Tailings dam wall collapses | Dique de colas colapsa
El Potosi, Correo del Sur: Técnicos de la Gobernación potosina realizan el monitoreo de las aguas en el río Tarapaya, antes de que llegue a territorio chuquisaqueño. | Technicians from the Potosi Government carry out water monitoring in the Tarapaya River, before it reaches Chuquisaca territory. | GENTILEZA Tailings dam wall collapses in Potosí and…
They open funerary museum in the “street of pneumonia” | Abren museo funerario en la “calle de la pulmonía”
El Potosi [to watch video in Spanish, no subtitles/para ver video en español, use este link]: The Potosi Funeral Culture Interpretation Center contains original and imitation bone remains to explain the funerary culture and its different periods. Sara Soto Miranda, responsible for the interpretation museum of the underground crypts, which is in the subsoil of…
Potosí: History of water | Historia del agua
Juan José Toro · El Potosí: Well find recalls long history of water When Potosí was born, it did not have a distribution system for the liquid element. As expected, the maintenance and renovation works in the second Mint House gave rise to a discovery, this time of a well that would have been covered…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 