Alejandra Pau reports for Pagina Siete: Totora, Bolivia’s architectural gem With its colonial houses -some abandoned after the earthquake in May 1998- Totora lives its present. The jewel of colonial and republican architecture evokes among its nearly empty streets and rooftops of their old buildings a warm story suspended in time. With houses 400…
Tag: Bolivian heritage
Current Bolivia president is also guilty for what happens with the Cerro Rico
Juan Jose Toro writes in Los Tiempos: Evo also has the guilt Since last June 15, the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco, for its acronym in English) meets in Doha, capital of Qatar. This is the 38th meeting of this instance and one of its first determinations…
Bolivian National Emblem under jeopardy: Cerro Rico of Potosi
Bolivians look almost daily at the Cerro Rico de Potosi (rich mountain) in our code of arms, in our coins… yet very few of us realize that this national emblem can be lost… ANF reports and printed in La Opinion: THE CONTRACTED COMPANY HAS NINE MONTHS TO WORK. The Government already disbursed Bs10 million for…
2012 in review
Bolivian Thoughts in an Emerging World likes to thank all of you dear and regarded visitors! I hope to see you again this 2013 and that our country shines and leaves behind all the uncertainty, hatred and resentment of those poor demagogue people. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film…
Tambo Quirquincho, Bolivian architectonic treasure
It is a beautiful building and worth preserving, despite recent “political ideology” that pushes to curse, ban and forget our identity. We cannot deny our western civilization culture, our mestizo heritage and majority of the Bolivian population. La Prensa did a report on Tambo Quirquincho: During the colonial era, the Museum hosted the indigenous traders….
Rock Art Congress bring experts to Bolivia from five continents
Anahi Cazas reports for Pagina Siete: For the first time, 300 researchers from countries of America, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa will gather from June 25 -29 in La Paz in an Archaeology and Rock Art Congress. The meeting is organized as part of the activities of the celebration of the 25 years of the…
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