Gabriela Alanoca reports for Pagina Siete: The objects date back to the seventeenth century and the majority corresponds to the Tata Santiago. The rooms of the Casa del Artista were occupied yesterday by sculptures of saints and objects of silverware, which were rescued by officials of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, from a house…
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Miracles and legends of the Lord of the True Cross, patron of Potosí
Laura Paz reports for Pagina Siete: The Lord of the True Cross, the image appeared in 1550. Photos Laura Paz Leaño España The image is cataloged as the oldest of the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the second in Latin America. Appeared in 1550, in the convent of San Francisco de Asís. The testimonies of…
Bolivia History 101: Santa Cruz!
Paula Peña writes in El Deber: The project of the patriots for Santa Cruz The Governorate of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, founded in 1560, was the guardian of the frontier of the Spanish empire in this part of America. The rivers Iténez and Paraguay marked the confines between Spain and Portugal. From the city…
These Powerful WOMEN RUN BOLIVIA’S FOOD SYSTEM
LESLIE PARISEAU reports for Saveur: Along the winding streets of La Paz,through a hidden alleyway and down a dim market corridor, a butcher wields a cleaver, bringing it swiftly down upon a glistening slab of scarlet beef. Another butcher lifts a swollen aubergine heart, nestling it carefully atop a heap of other hearts. Yet another…
Old missionary manuscript in Bolivia was immortalized
EFE reports via Pagina Siete: The score of an old missionary mass in the country was written between 1730 and 1740. The musical score of an old missionary mass written between 1730 and 1740 and sheltered for more than three centuries by the inhabitants of the Chiquitania, in the east of the country, has been…
Meet the Women Wrestling Their Way to Equality in the High Andes
By LAURENCE BUTET-ROCH, Photographs by LUISA DÖRR for National Geographic; Bolivia’s stylish Flying Cholitas have merged modern wrestling with their community’s history of activism. Noelia, a 19-year-old wrestler, poses for a photograph in her traditional cholita garb. “People need heroes, wrestlers, champions of their own who can be admired,” reflects Brazilian photographer Luisa Dörr, who spent ten days in…
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