Ivone Juárez y Pamela Pomacahua, Pagina Siete: Página Siete collected some Bolivian wishes for Christmas. In these times of Covid-19 people want good health, first and foremost. “I want the pandemic to end as quickly as possible, and that the habit of taking care of our health, washing our hands, wearing the mask and taking…
Tag: Bolivian heritage
The Mysterious Sajama Lines
Heritage Daily: The Sajama Lines is an ancient network of pre-Hispanic linear paths, located in the altiplano, or highlands of western Bolivia near the Nevado Sajama volcano. The web of lines covers an area of 22,525 square kilometres (almost fifteen times larger than the Nazca lines situated over a thousand kilometres away), and ran a combined length…
Fisonomía – 101 – Physiognomy
Carlos Hugo Molina, Los Tiempos: The physiognomy of the Bolivian We have to accept that we are the product of the popular national construction that was born after the Chaco War and that combined mestizos, urban and rural self-employed living in cities and autonomous territories, and informal, corporate, violent and supportive people. In order for…
Repartijas – Distributions
Claudia Eid, Los Tiempos: Of expenses and “absurd” distributions The one that was the Ministry of Cultures never worked quite well and that is because it is not understood what is the profile of who should lead that portfolio or, in reality, because the Government of the day is not really interested in culture. It…
El traje de chola tiene origen europeo – The chola costume has European origin
Juan Jose Toro, El Potosi: We present this work in connection with the controversies over the use of these clothes, which in some places is interpreted as an insult, and in connection with the inauguration of an exclusive boutique for cholitas. Her name was Manuela del Risco y Agorreta and, although she had to go…
Todos Santos potosino – All Saints in Potosí
Evelyn Callapino, Página Siete: Flowers, candles, incense and an accumulation of memories is the first thing I received with the visit of death. I have lived with her for more than four months because she decided to take Leoncio, my father, leaving in my mind a nostalgic accordion cueca to accompany my pain as she…
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