Agustin Saavedra Weise, El Deber: General Agustín Saavedra Paz and the battle of Ingavi The 180th anniversary of the Battle of Ingavi is rapidly approaching, that glorious November 18, 1841 when the national arms were covered with glory in a combat that forever sealed the independence and integrity of the Republic of Bolivia with the…
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Los restos del general Marzana, héroe del Chaco, ya están a Sucre – The remains of General Marzana, hero of the Chaco, are already in Sucre
Pagina Siete: This Thursday the remains of the military will be buried in the General Cemetery of the capital, in the pavilion of the veterans of the Chaco War. The remains of General Manuel Marzana, the Chuquisaca hero of the Chaco War, arrived in the city of Sucre on Wednesday after their exhumation in the…
Deep History – Historia Profunda
El Diario: Deep History Collection shows another reality of Bolivia There are historical constructions, based on speculation and supported by emotion that it is necessary to unravel and find the truth, said Eduardo Paz Campero Amelunge The Deep History Collection, a series of 11 books written by historian and researcher Eduardo Paz Campero Amelunge, shows…
Blows to history – Golpes a la historia
Hernan Terrazas, Los Tiempos: The problem with not having written our history well is that anyone comes, reinvents it and the great confusion sets in. At the beginning of the 90s of the last century, for example, someone came up with the brilliant idea of affirming that the coca leaf grown in the Chapare was…
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…
10 Bolivian Women Who Changed the Course of History
Written by Christina Noriega for Remezcla: In 1930s Bolivia, a powerful labor rights movement that upended all conventions of the times emerged. Indigenous and working-class women who were usually relegated to the margins walked front-and-center in protests. Cooks, florists, market vendors and other women in undervalued professions unionized. Cholas, Indigenous and mestiza women who dress in…
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