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Summertime means more family time, and for Latinos, this family often extends across national borders. Fellow Book of the Month members may remember the following lines: “Every summer Santo Domingo slaps the Diaspora engine into reverse, yanks back as many of its expelled children as it can…Like someone had sounded a general reverse evacuation order: Read More
Story Behind the Anthem The Bolivian national anthem was first publicly revealed in the city of La Paz. It was introduced as Canción Patriótica at noon on November 18, 1845, during the celebration of the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Ingavi. Ninety musicians from the military band played the music composed by Leopoldo Benedetto Read More