Bolivian wines: delicious surprises!

Dave McIntyre reports for The Washington Post: If you haven’t tasted Bolivian wines, you’re in for some delicious surprises Wine fiends — those who not only enjoy or love wine, but spend an inordinate amount of time and energy talking, debating, reading, blogging and posting about it — often decry the “globalization” of wine. They…

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…

THE DYING ART OF THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL WEAVING: BOLIVIA!

Catherine Elton reports for ZY See Beyond: THE DYING ART OF THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL, SCARIEST WEAVING Why You Should Care These vibrant, otherworldly textiles from Bolivia are woven from dreams and chaos. But it’s a fading tradition. Agustina Churqui, a master Jalq’a weaver, sits working at a loom. On the upper part of it, thousands…