El Potosi [to watch video in Spanish, no subtitles/para ver video en español, use este link]: The Potosi Funeral Culture Interpretation Center contains original and imitation bone remains to explain the funerary culture and its different periods. Sara Soto Miranda, responsible for the interpretation museum of the underground crypts, which is in the subsoil of…
Tag: Bolivian heritage
Women in the fight for independence | Mujeres en la lucha por la independencia
Jorge Quispe, Página Siete: From Juaristi Eguino to Manzaneda, the revolt of the 16th also wore skirts They led the insurgents on the battlefield, carried messages despite the risk, and even gave their fortunes to the cause. Women were decisive in the struggle for independence. Tomasa Murillo, the eldest daughter of Pedro Domingo Murillo, fought…
“Let the jungle not run out of music” “Que la selva no se quede sin música”
Proyecto. Los niños en su taller orquestal aprovechan las vacaciones. Project. The children in their orchestral workshop take advantage of the holidays. | Flades Edwin Fernández Rojas, Los Tiempos: Chiquitania. Comprehensive project “Let the jungle not run out of music” is born With the premise “That the jungle is not left without music”, the Chiquitanía…
Potosí: History of water | Historia del agua
Juan José Toro · El Potosí: Well find recalls long history of water When Potosí was born, it did not have a distribution system for the liquid element. As expected, the maintenance and renovation works in the second Mint House gave rise to a discovery, this time of a well that would have been covered…
Bolivia: Newly identified waterlily species is world’s largest | La especie de nenúfar recién identificada es la más grande del mundo
Helena Horton, The Guardian: Leaves of species grown at Kew Gardens can reach up to three metres in the wild A giant waterlily grown at Kew Gardens has been named as new to science, in the first discovery of its type in more than a century. Scientists at the south-west London garden suspected for decades…
From adornment to figure of power: the evolution of the chola in the morenada | De adorno a figura de poder: la evolución de la chola en la morenada
Jorge Soruco, Página Siete: FOR THE GRAN PODER, UNIQUE LUXURY OUTFITS ARE PREPARED BY TROUPES Starting in the 1970s, female characters gained strength in heavy dance. First with the china women who highlighted their sensuality and later with the authority and economic strength of the skirt. “Of course, to dance they have to ask us…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 