Lima Cochabamba is a very pleasant city in many ways, but La Paz and El Alto are what’s happening as unique political, social, and cultural environments which are hard to duplicate in the rest of the world. The strategic and tactical power of El Alto over the country, because of its geographical stranglehold and emergence and …
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Not by Bread Alone: Art and Water in Bolivia
Cochabamba Our days in La Paz were never complete without a trip to or from El Alto, the city of a million on the top of the mountain, which made us acutely aware of the importance of this strategic location in the future of social movements and the very country. Meeting with Ivan Nogales, the director …
The Strongest Community Organization, Bartolina Sisas, and the Union of Lowlands Indigenous People
La Paz We were off to El Alto again for a meeting in the morning with the general secretary of FEJUVE, which is essentially is the largest civic association of united neighbors of El Alto. Arguably FEJUVE was not only the strongest community organization anywhere in the province of La Paz, but also the country. …