Óscar Catacora’s Aymara-language feature, Wiñaypacha, has been chosen by Peru’s Ministry of Culture to represent the nation at both the US and Spanish Academy Awards in 2019, an astonishing announcement for a country which often makes invisible its... Read Article
The opening shot of this documentary is of a man in an oxygen mask. It then cuts to the statue of Columbus standing atop his column on the Barcelona seafront, extending a digit in the direction of the... Read Article
Legendary Bolivian songbird Luzmila Carpio gave an astonishing concert last Friday in La Paz’s Teatro Municipal, marvelling the crowd with a set of classic and new compositions. It was the third of three sold out shows to a... Read Article
Think of cholitas, the indigenous Bolivian women, and you will most probably have ladies dressed in bowler hats, pleated multi-layered skirts and even more colourful shawls known as “mantas” in mind. Now imagine eleven indigenous Bolivian women with... Read Article
The indigenous Aymara people have been discriminated against since colonial times and make up the second largest ethnic group In Bolivia. The Aymara’s knowledge of the land, ability to adapt to modernisation, and extensive trading networks have ensured... Read Article
Equipped only with a guitar and some raw versions of his compositions, Giovani Cidreira’s new EP is somewhat of a culmination of his partnership with Maicon Charles (drummer) and Dinho Castilho (bass). Released back in November 2014 and... Read Article
Known as “the roof top of the world” due to its high elevation in the Andes mountains, Bolivia is a melting pot of indigenous and hybrid forms of music and cultural values. Although sixty percent of the country’s... Read Article
