Alfonso Gumucio D., Página Siete: Maturing in war – Madurar en la guerra “Don’t be swayed by youthful enthusiasm. Do not let that lead you to make a decision that you will later regret. You are going to leave behind your fathers, your mothers, your brothers, your sisters, your friends, your girlfriends. All the life…
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Primera aviadora – Amalia Villa de la Tapia – First female aviator
El Potosi: Senate honors the first female aviator It took 27 years for the Bolivian Senate to do justice to the first female aviator in South America and to approve a posthumous decoration in memory of Amalia Villa de la Tapia from Potosi. Villa Ella died on March 4, 1994, when she had passed the…
Batalla de Ingavi – Battle of Ingavi
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…
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…
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