“I am not a terrorist.” – sign on the National Mall, April 2006
On that crisp April afternoon on the National Mall in Washington, DC, the multitude of Latinos and their families draped themselves in American flags, flags from their homeland and waved handwritten signs. Some of those placards pleaded for better treatment for undocumented […]
Two weeks have passed since the Annual Bolivian Festival in Northern Virginia. If it hadn’t been for the complimentary admission ticket for those distributing information about Escuela Bolivia, the organization which I am now a Board Member of, I would have probably skipped the event altogether.
First of all, the event which featured all […]
I’m spoiled with the plethora of Bolivian restaurants, activities and events in the Washington DC metro area, which is the heart of the Bolivian community in the U.S. However, everything is so spread out as families continue to move to the south due to the insane housing prices and high cost of living. […]
Two Bolivian movies have been included in the National Museum of the American Indian’s First Nations/First Films series. Both films will be shown on Saturday, May 21 at 12:00 p.m. at the NMAI on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
A little more about this series:
First Nations\First Features celebrates the groundbreaking feature films of indigenous […]
Jokingly they refer to Arlington, VA as “Arlibamba” in reference to the huge number of Bolivian immigrants, especially those from Cochabamba who headed the first wave of mass movement twenty years ago. I’ve only been the area for less than a year, but my wish is to get more involved with the Bolivian community […]