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Archive for November 2010
Talking Heat at the Top
16 November, 2010, Lorange Dao
As the Copenhagen Climate Summit drew to an end in November 2009, among a growing sense of disillusionment, many countries, such as Bolivia and Venezuela, refused to sign the final agreement. A few months later, Evo Morales decided to organize an alternative climate summit set in Cochabamba – Conferencia Mundial ...
Metaltura
16 November, 2010, Erick Trillo
Something that may slap you in the face when you arrive in La Paz is the seemingly impossible combination of western modernity and its various local antidotes. In a society where half the people retain many of their Aymara customs, and where most people still partake in pre-Columbine rituals, there ...
Stroke Of Genius: Hector Andres Viscarra Bustillo Navigates Choppy Waters
16 November, 2010, Jack Brooker
As a date with Bolivia’s number one swimmer, Hector Andres Viscarra Bustillo, loomed, I naturally tried everything I could to find out as much as possible about him. Unfortunately ‘Google’ couldn’t come up with the goods, and neither could ‘Wikipedia’; in fact online there was next to nothing about Bolivian ...
Traffic Jam
16 November, 2010, Sarah Ludd
When arriving in La Paz the general chaos everywhere is one of the first things you notice. The city of La Paz is a pioneer for a traffic safety project. For the tourist new to Bolivia, the trafic is possibly the first cultural shock: the disarray of the traffic can ...
Painting The Town Mas: Street art and political propaganda on paceño streets
16 November, 2010, Jack Brooker and Sarah Ludd
As has been discussed in previous Bolivian Express issues, the city of La Paz is not short on artistic creativity and expression. This can be witnessed first hand all over the city: every spare bit of wall, building or lamp post has been decorated. We see murals, street art, advertisements ...
Tony Suarex: A Life Less Ordinary
16 November, 2010, Lorange Dao
Tony Suarez. A name most people in La Paz know and associate with his eclectic photographic corpus. But did you know that this man had a life as eclectic as his pics? Born in Cochabamba, Tony moved to New York when he was twelve and lived there for about 30 ...
Gabriel Barcelo: Simple Mind
16 November, 2010, Andrew Cummings and Sharoll Fernandez
‘The artist’ emanates an exclusive aura. We kneel and revere, expecting him to exude a kind of spirituality, and ‘the artist’ responds by first cultivating the enigma and then finally getting lost behind a pretentiousness coat of paint. But today we are meeting someone who has not been lured down ...