Fabien Lemercier, CineEuropa [Video: use link below/use el link al final]: In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and his wife Sisa face a dilemma: resist, or be defeated by the environment and time itself. “If you knew how…
Is it possible to trust Bolivian justice? – ¿Es posible confiar en la justicia boliviana?
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The arrest, indictment and preventive detention for six months, in the San Pedro prison, La Paz, of the police colonel investigated by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and who was national chief anti-drug trafficking in the last nine months of the Morales government could suggest that the national justice system acts…
The eternal potato – La papa eterna
Nicole Pinto, El Deber: Chuño: The truth behind the eternal ‘potato’ Its production can take several days, between which the feet will be used as part of the process, resulting in a food that can last up to 10 years properly stored. Chuño is an ancestral food of Andean origin, widely consumed throughout the area…
70% of small and medium-sized companies have female leadership – El 70% de la pequeña y mediana empresa tiene liderazgo femenino
A multisectoral effort aims to modify regulations and public policies to break the gaps in access to financing and knowledge that exist between men and women in Bolivia. Journalist: Walter Vasquez Of every 10 micro, small and medium-sized companies in the country, seven are led by women, according to a new study by UN Women…
Drug trafficking: owner of Bolivia? – Narcotráfico: ¿dueño de Bolivia?
Editorial, El Deber: The powerful drug clan that no one saw Day after day, new revelations emerge about what appears to be a powerful clan around drug trafficker Omar Rojas Echeverría, whom in Colombia, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States, they call “Bolivian Pablo Escobar.” The most recent thing that…
“The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” – “El sentido del humor boliviano puede ser tan fino como el inglés”
Ricardo David Herrera, El Deber; Pedro Albornoz: “The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” For the second consecutive year, the writer, translator and art critic from Cochabamba won the Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz novel award. He is one of the voices that gains strength in national literature Albornoz also won…
