From The Telegraph: Bolivian men and women in violent harvest festival punch up, in pictures Pictures: Martin Pashley/Solent News Thousands of villagers high up in the Bolivian Andes have taken part in a street fight with the aim of ‘spilling as much blood as possible’. Men and women dressed in colourful clothes take part in…
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History 101: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of capitalism’
A great article regarding Potosi, by The Guardian: Story of cities #6: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of capitalism’ The discovery of a mountain of silver (and a new way to extract it) transformed this remote Incan hamlet into the economic centre of Spain’s empire – larger than London, Milan or Seville….
The female wrestlers of Bolivia
BBC – Culture reports: The female wrestlers of Bolivia By Fiona Macdonald Skirting the issue They are like birds of paradise swirling around each other in a mating dance. Except their wings are layered petticoats and tasselled shawls, and they are not wooing but body slamming, hair pulling and landing flying kicks. They are the…
Bolivia Madidi park is a butterfly paradise
Fox News reports: Bolivia park is a butterfly paradise Scientists on an expedition in Bolivia have identified more than 1,000 varieties of butterflies living in Madidi National Park, a New Jersey-sized protected area considered to be the most biodiverse in the world. . . . . . http://www.foxnews.com/science/slideshow/2016/03/17/bolivia-park-is-butterfly-paradise.html#/slide/-nbsp- I considered myself fortunate to have had…
Bear left for dead gets new home in Bolivian refuge
CNN reports: Bear left for dead gets new home in Bolivian refuge By Marilia Brocchetto (CNN)A spectacled bear who had been brutally beaten has been given a second chance at life by Bolivian environmental authorities. [to watch the video, use the link at the bottom, thank you] The bear will soon be on his way…
A hundred years’ research of the Puerta del Sol
El Diario reports: A hundred years’ research of the Puerta del Sol A collection of national and foreign researchers made by Julio Cesar Velasquez, former Director of the National Museum of Archaeology, was reflected in the text entitled “Enigmatic Puerta del Sol, in a colossus and mysterious Tiwanaku,” dating back to 1890, date on which…
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