Father Piotr Nawrot highlights music files from Bolivia

UCB reports via ERBOL Digital: Father Piotr Nawrot highlights music files from Bolivia “In Bolivia we have so rich musical documentation that we can teach the whole history of Western music without having to go to Europe,” said Father Piotr Nawrot, musicologist and director of the Chiquitos Festival in Santa Cruz, at a conference at…

Pollution levels in Bolivia plummet on nationwide car-free day

Linda Farthing reports for The Guardian: Pollution levels in Bolivia plummet on nationwide car-free day Country wants to reclaim physical activity in age when young people are focused on computers, says government spokeswoman. Air pollution levels have plunged in cities across Bolivia as the country marked a nationwide car-free day in which all non-emergency vehicles…

Climate Change Is Making This Bolivian Village a Ghost Town

Ben Walker reports for Inside Climate News: Climate Change Is Making This Bolivian Village a Ghost Town Two years of drought and rising temperatures dried up the river and quinoa fields, pushing a wave of migration to cities as people searched for work. SANTIAGO K, Bolivia — Someone’s nearly always lived in Santiago K. Cupped…

Watch: This Bolivian Restaurant Is Inside a Manhattan Subway Station

Eater Video and Lucas Peterson reports: Watch: This Bolivian Restaurant Is Inside a Manhattan Subway Station ‘Dining on a Dime’ heads to New York City for meaty salteñas This episode of Dining on a Dime, which kicks off this New York City-focused season, takes host Lucas Peterson to the center of all the action —…

Silala: Chile not satisfied with the copper and seacoast they violently took away from Bolivia, wants more!

From The Editors for World Politics Review: The Political and Legal Stakes of a Feud Over a Tiny South American River Earlier this month, Bolivian President Evo Morales publicly berated his Chilean counterpart, Michelle Bachelet, for allegedly disclosing the contents of a filing before the International Court of Justice in The Hague concerning the two countries’ battle over the Silala…