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By Gina Baldivieso La Paz, Feb 18 (EFE).- Garments woven with the help of an experienced Bolivian designer, leather wallets and bags, handicrafts, bread, and pastries are sold at the “Puya” Café Boutique, an initiative to showcase the production of women and young people from two Bolivian prisons as part of a social reintegration program. …
Gina Baldivieso Mocomoco (Bolivia), Oct 16 (EFE).- Pastry-making and sewing polleras, the wide skirts used by the Aymara cholitas, have become allies of Flora Silva to promote women’s empowerment in rural communities, with whom she shares the content of the law against gender violence. Behind this initiative is the “Nayrar Sarapxañani” Association, directed by Silva …
By Gina Baldivieso La Paz, Jul 5 (EFE).- Sashes woven by indigenous hands and their importance in daily life and significance from birth to death are the subject of a recently inaugurated exhibit at Bolivia’s National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (Musef). Titled “Wak’añ Wak’a: Protective and Life-Shaping Sashes,” the exhibit reflects on the connection …
By Gina Baldivieso La Paz, Jun 24 (EFE).- Bolivian devotees of the classic Volkswagen Beetles showed off their vehicles here Saturday in a belated observance of Worldwide VW Beetle Day. Launched in 1995 by Alexander Gromow, co-founder of the Brazilian magazine Fusca Clube Brazil, the day commemorates the June 22, 1934, signing of a contract …