Bolivia's VP and Journalist Marry in Aymara Rites
Bolivia's VP and Journalist Marry in Aymara Rites
By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press
LA PAZ, Bolivia September 8, 2012 (AP)
The nation's vice president and his bride chose for their Saturday nuptials a temple of stone walls that the ancient Aymara people constructed some 3,000 years ago to observe the heavens.
The unusual ceremony uniting 49-year-old Vice President Alvaro Garcia with Claudia Fernandez, a 25-year-old journalist, was held at an ancestral site honoring the Pachamama, or Mother Earth, in a place called Tiwanaku, about 70 kilometers west of the Bolivian capital of La Paz.
Crews from two television channels provided coverage of the ceremony attended by about 200 people, including Bolivian President Evo Morales, Nobel peace laureates Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala and Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina, government ministers, ambassadors and Aymara dignitaries.
A pair of shamans bathed the couple in incense smoke and asked the Pachamama and other Andean gods to produce good omens for the pair at the archaeological site located near Lake Titicaca.
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