LA PAZ (Reuters) -The rise in power and influence of the Indigenous Aymara in Bolivia has been the country's biggest political shift of recent decades, driven by the success of former President Evo ...
GUAQUI, Bolivia – Masked dancers parade through the streets during a festival held in honor of Santiago the apostle, known as Saint James in English, the patron saint of the town in Guaqui, Bolivia.
New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people indicates they have a concept of time opposite to all other studied cultures -- so that the past is ahead of them ...
Recently, NIKOLAS KOZLOFF, author of Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), caught up with Magdalena Cajias, a historian at the Upper University of San ...
What does decolonization look like in concrete, neon, and glass? High in the Andes, above the sprawling city of La Paz, Bolivia, a visual revolution is unfolding. In El Alto, buildings now rise and ...
La Paz, Jul 15 (EFE).La Paz, Jul 15 (EFE). — Models showed off Aymara Indian fashion designer Eliana Paco Paredes’ new collection for indigenous women, or “cholitas,” at Bolivia’s presidential palace, ...
The traditional bowler hats, bright blouses and long, plaited “pollera” skirts of the young women contrast with the skateboards under their feet as they swoop back and forth on the skate ramp in ...
LA PAZ – Pope Francis decorated Bolivian Vicente Quispe Chura for having headed a team comprised of Bolivians and Peruvians who translated several liturgical texts from Spanish into Aymara, the ...