Paula Peña writes in El Deber: The project of the patriots for Santa Cruz The Governorate of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, founded in 1560, was the guardian of the frontier of the Spanish empire in this part of America. The rivers Iténez and Paraguay marked the confines between Spain and Portugal. From the city…
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What life is like for the teenage miners of Potosi, Bolivia
Kenneth Dickerman and Photo editor Simone Francescangeli for The Washington Post: “El Tio” and a miner. “El Tio” is a miner’s god that presides over every tunnel entrance. Every day, miners offer him coca leaves, cigarettes and alcohol, hoping it will bring good fortune. (Simone Francescangeli) Any celebration is a good opportunity to drink and forget miners’ living…
Bolivian cuisine 101: The “llajwa”, an idyll with the Bolivian palate
Jessica Vargas reports for Los Tiempos, photos by Gerardo Bravo: 48 years ago, when Juana Fuentes opened her food stall in the 27 de Mayo market, the first thing she installed was her batán to make llajwa. Before preparing his menu – which includes mixed spicy, lawas, sillpancho, among others – she prepares to create…
Old missionary manuscript in Bolivia was immortalized
EFE reports via Pagina Siete: The score of an old missionary mass in the country was written between 1730 and 1740. The musical score of an old missionary mass written between 1730 and 1740 and sheltered for more than three centuries by the inhabitants of the Chiquitania, in the east of the country, has been…
Meet the Women Wrestling Their Way to Equality in the High Andes
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 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…
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