Peasant Power in Bolivia. Hector Tobar.
by Tobar, Hector; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 23Human Relations. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2004ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Aymara Indians | Bolivia -- Politics and government | Civil rights | Ethnic relations | Indians of South America | Indigenous movement | Indigenous peoples -- Bolivia | Quechua IndiansDDC classification: 050 Summary: "As many as 1.5 million people--almost a fifth of Bolivia's population--live in areas where indigenous authorities have replaced at least some government functions, said Alvaro Garcia Linera, a university professor in La Paz who has studied the popular movements of Bolivia's two main indigenous groups, the Aymara and the Quechua." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The author discusses how "more and more indigenous people rise up and take control of their villages" in Bolivia as Indian nationalism and indigenous rights movements gain strength.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Peasant Power in Bolivia, March 31, 2004; pp. A1+.
"As many as 1.5 million people--almost a fifth of Bolivia's population--live in areas where indigenous authorities have replaced at least some government functions, said Alvaro Garcia Linera, a university professor in La Paz who has studied the popular movements of Bolivia's two main indigenous groups, the Aymara and the Quechua." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The author discusses how "more and more indigenous people rise up and take control of their villages" in Bolivia as Indian nationalism and indigenous rights movements gain strength.
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