Melanie Anastacia Van Allen Bolivia’s Carnaval: Spanglish Ojos Blue Bolivia’s most anticipated cultural event of the year is Carnaval in Oruro, which has a lengthy historia and has taken many forms throughout the pre-colonial and colonial eras. Oruro is in the region of the central Bolivian altiplano, which is closely identified with its mining industry and the Indigenous cultures residing there. Nearly one million visitors travel to the sleepy mining town every February to w