Choose your Hero: Miguel Hidalgo and September 16
The first national holiday wheeled around, landing on a Wednesday, breaking up school as it broke up the thunderstorms that had been skulking about for days. September 16 is Independence […]
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Sucre celebrates two hundred years of ‘independence’
For as long as I have been in Sucre the city has been fixated on its impending bicentennial. On May 25th the city would celebrate what the giant posters festooning […]
Living with Enclaustromiento
Autumn arrived in Sucre, replacing the summer tempests with long nights and mornings of cool rain. When the sun came out hummingbirds thrummed among the late flowers and the soggy […]
Pujllay means Play
It’s very hard to draw a defining line between work and play in Bolivia. There is none of the stoic solemnity surrounding work that seems to be the norm in […]
