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…
Bolivian chefs are trading colonial cuisine for national pride
Jen Rose Smith reports for CNN: La Paz, Bolivia (CNN) — Midway through a 17-course tasting menu at Gustu, a La Paz restaurant where dinner and drinks for two could cost more than many Bolivians could afford, a plate arrived bearing three translucent cubes of ceviche. The chewy, sweet-tasting meat was lagarto, a reptile known in…
Watch: Fancy-dress paragliders in Irupana, La Paz, Bolivia
Euro News reports, to watch the video use the link at the bottom: Paragliders in fancy-dress took to the skies over the Andes mountain range in Bolivia. Held in Irupana, a town in the Los Yungas province of Bolivia, the competition saw over 50 paragliders taking part from Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. The…
Bolivian woman thought to be the world’s oldest person at nearly 118 says she loves eating cakes, singing folk songs and playing with her chickens
Press Association for Daily Mail Online: Julia Flores Colque, from Sacaba, in the Andean mountains in Bolivia, is 117 years and ten months old Ms Flores Colque’s national identity card says she was born in a mining camp on October 26, 1900 Her date of birth makes her the oldest woman in Bolivia, and perhaps the…
The reasons why women’s football in Bolivia is on the rise
Alicia Povey reports for besoccer.dom: After demonstrating their passion on the pitch, 30 Bolivian girls stood out among hundreds of women to be part of the professional team of a top club, the Tigre de La Paz. The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) requires that all teams have a female squad so that clubs can attend the…
Entrepreneurs say that Government intends to detract criticism
El Diario reports: ECLAC growth and forecasts The Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia (Cepb), lamented that the Ministry of Economy intends to use a topic as sensitive as the ECLAC analysis on the state of the Latin American economy, as an argument to disqualify the claim of the private sector on the accuracy of…
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