Bolivian folklore 101: Caporales dance, how it was created!

From time to time we see/read about Chile, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador folklore groups playing our music, as if it were their own. I recall been in Germany and not so long ago in Charles Square, Cambridge, MA, USA, where musical groups from other countries were playing Bolivian music as if it was originally from their…

At last, some good news for the TIPNIS

From the Facebook account of Jacqueline Patino [Patiño]: #TIPNIS good news: Finally some light! They have admitted the popular demand. Read what was decided by the Constitutional Court. The Committee of admission of the Tribunal constitutional plurinational [Plurinational Constitutional Court], resolved: 1 Revoke the resolution 59/2012 dated October 8, as registered on “folios” fs. 54-55,…

The Jesuit Missions, a wonderful place in La Chiquitania!

If you have seen “The Mission” with Robert de Niro, you may have wondered how those churches look-like; well just go to La Chiquitania in Santa Cruz, Bolivia! Tatiana Sanabria writes for Pagina Siete: Churches of the Chiquitania maintained its Jesuit charm It would seem that the time stopped in the churches of the Chiquitania….

How is that, how President?

Maggy Talavera’s wonderful analysis in Pagina Siete: How is that, how President? When Evo Morales delivered his first speech as President of Bolivia, seven years ago, a question particularly caught the attention and was a matter of opinions in the national and international press. It was addressed to the former President Jaime Paz Zamora, who…