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…
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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…
11 curious facts that you did not know about Bolivia
Bolivia .com reports: Surely many of these data are unknown to you and today are presented. With a population of about 10.5 million inhabitants and its large area, Bolivia is one of the countries in Latin America with the lowest population density. But before telling you all the details, Bolivia.com decided to show 11 curiosities…
Bolivian History 101: Unique flag and symbol of integration
El Diario reports: Unique flag and symbol of integration Today, August 17, the National Flag Day is celebrated, so Bolivians will pay homage to the tricolor that made its first appearance in 1825, as the only Bolivian emblem. At present, it is formed by three horizontal stripes of equal width and dimensions, with the colors…
How could we describe what really means to Be Bolivian?
Pagina Siete rightfully describes who we are: In the sights Be Bolivian We Bolivians are hard-working, enterprising people, of fortitude [ñeque], as they say in La Paz. But, just as we have that virtue, we are owners of a horrible defect: we do not like to comply with the law. All generalization is bad, but…
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