Imagine being 12,144 feet above sea level in the mining town of Oruro, Bolivia, hearing the traditional music of your indigenous ancestors and sharing their folkloric cultural history through movement of your body, dancing at Oruro's Carnaval, one of the most impressive festivals in all of Bolivia.
This was a dream come true for Bolivian-American millennial Karina Moscoso, who is an Astoria, New York native that works for R. Couri Hay Creative Public Relations in New York City.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales wants to make his country the fourth country in Latin America to have nuclear energy. Morales announced plans this week to build Bolivia's first nuclear reactor.
He is a two-time Academy Award winner who's known for his dramatic roles in "Mystic River," "Dead Man Walking;" he's tugged at our heartstrings through his roles as a father with a developmental disability in "I Am Sam" and as a gay rights activist and politician, Harvey Milk, in "Milk."
Now, he's taken on another dramatic role, but this time it's a real-life drama.
What does shearing vicuña in Bolivia and tycoon Donald Trump and actor Daniel Craig have in common? The love of one of the world's most treasured and expensive wools.
Every two years, the wind-swept Andean plain is overcome essentially by a two herds - wild vicuña and a mechanical herd made up of men on motorcycles, as Aymara villagers conduct a frenzied chase to round up the prized animals for shearing.
