Meet Liliana. She lives off a stretch of highway connecting the bustling cities of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba in the roadside town of Sugal. This isn’t, however, the center of her world. At nine years old Liliana has another place in mind she would one day like to call home.
Marcelo Alvares Meet Marcelo. At 30 years old he’s found what most people spend lifetimes looking for – happiness. Little did he know ten years ago when he fumbled with his first embroidery that sequins would eventually become the key to his success. While Marcelo sews and designs at his “studio,” Bordados Imperial, he considers(…)
Nicolasa Zerán Meet Nicolasa. Her national ID claims she is 51 but she could really be 52. She doesn’t exactly know in what year her April 12 birthday falls and so, she chose the later for the record. She can, however, recount spending the last 25 years selling strawberries and other fruit on the same(…)
Saturday, April 6, 2013 Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera , Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia I guess you can call Mother Nature a soccer fan. After a week of relentless rainfall, the skies parted just long enough for a friendly exhibition game between Bolivia and Brazil at Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera in Santa Cruz yesterday.(…)
Hailing from the great Midwest, I spent my youth rolling in thick blankets of snow and launching myself into giant piles of leaves in anticipation for the coming winter whiteout. And while summers were spent in one of Minnesota’s thousands of lakes, we clambered over giant iron rocks and hiked a waterfront of woods instead(…)