El Dia reports: Alcides Parejas A book to know Santa Cruz Release. It will be in the Haraganes Fraternity. History of the cruceños “is the new book that will be presented by the historian Alcides Parejas Moreno on Tuesday, October 28 in the Haraganes fraternity, under the publisher La Hoquera [The Bonfire]. A work that…
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Bolivian History 101: The evils of the Fatherland
Eric Cardenas writes in El Diario: The evils of the Fatherland 189 years ago in the city of La Plata (now Sucre) the Act of Independence of Upper Peru, before the arrival of the Spaniards was called Kollasuyo, was signed. The republic was the result of 15 years of unremitting struggle for independence from the…
Inauguration of the Mint House of Potosí
Today is a great day, is the day where the Republic of Bolivia won its independence! 189 years of hard struggle but it is OUR country, OUR REPUBLIC! Bolivia is a country where the majority of the around ten million people are of mestizo majority, of western civilization culture and mostly Christian society. With most…
How Sucre became the definitive capital of Bolivia
Luis S. Crespo wrote for El Diario on July 12, 1925: Defining the definitive capital of the Republic The National Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Bolivia, by law of August 11, 1825 ordered that lay the foundations of a city to serve as a capital for the new nation, and that city would be…
Historic novel: Sangre de Mestizos [Mestizos Blood], the country that was written in the Chaco
Liliana Carrillo reports for Pagina Siete: THE BOOK OF TALES OF AUGUSTO CÉSPEDES Sangre de Mestizos [Mestizos Blood], the country that was written in the Chaco 79 years ago ended the Chaco War and makes public the volume 78 is emblematic stories, he discovered literature to a new country. “You are now homeland, Chaco, /…
Bolivian History 101: Battles of the Peru – Bolivian Confederation: Montenegro
From El Diario, June 24, 1927, Luis Crespo reported: Battles of the Peru – Bolivian Confederation: Montenegro Having learned of the Argentine incursion (June 11), General Otto Felipe Braun moved his forces and marched with them from Tupiza to Tarija, acquiring accurate news regarding where the Argentines were heading. Gen. Gregorio Paz, who was the…
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