AFP reports in YahooNews: Bolivia president undergoes paternity test in scandal A court has ordered Bolivia’s leftist president Evo Morales to undergo a paternity test to answer claims by his ex-partner Gabriela Zapata that he is indeed the father of her child A court has ordered Bolivia’s leftist president Evo Morales to undergo a paternity…
History 101: How and why it came to the 1904 Treaty
Jose Alberto Diez de Medina writes in El Diario: How and why it came to the 1904 Treaty Analyzing the history of Bolivia, it come to conclude that there were flaws such as lack of coordination and understanding, that made not possible to determine the imposition of the righteousness of Bolivia to obtain a gateway…
An ethnography of Bolivian Aymara traders in the global economy
A book by Oxford University Press: About the Book Based on years of fieldwork, this ethnography of the Bolivian Aymara trading system and its networks and economic strategies examines one of the most up-and-coming forms of indigenous entrepreneurship on the American continent, in a region where the indigenous population is still stigmatized for…
Bolivia can make it to the Olympics in Rio!
Bolivia removed from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Non-Compliant List Following a circulatory vote by its Foundation Board members, WADA today announced that it has removed the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Bolivia, acting as the National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO), from the list of signatories previously deemed non-compliant with the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code (Code). The…
Bolivia’s ‘cholita’ climbers scale highest mountain yet: ‘I cried with emotion’
Reuters reports through The Guardian: Bolivia’s ‘cholita’ climbers scale highest mountain yet: ‘I cried with emotion’ Two years ago, 11 Aymara indigenous women who worked for mountaineers decided to do their own climbing and have since tackled five peaks near La Paz. For years, Lydia Huayllas, 48, has worked as a cook at base camps…
Missionary music begins to be heard throughout the country
Roxana Jimenez reports for El Dia: XI Festival of American Renaissance and Baroque music Missionary music begins to be heard throughout the country Unmissable. 146 concerts will be held for 10 days from April 22 to May 1 [2016]. Jealously guarded scores, baroque architecture, the Bolivian culture, and research that rescued the music of past…
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