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... El Alto is Bolivia’s second-largest city, and the unofficial capital of the Aymara people of the Andes. Chapter 2 describes how a new form of lucha libre , or costumed wrestling, has taken El Alto by storm. Aymara people lucha libre women wrestlers El Alto, Bolivia ...

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... Evo Morales Aymara peoples 2019 Bolivian election Jeanine Añez Luis Arce Catacora ...

...South America Chapter 1 charts the fall of Evo Morales, a most unusual politician, who helped transform his country, Bolivia, and then overstayed his welcome. Evo Morales Aymara peoples 2019 Bolivian election Jeanine Añez Luis Arce Catacora El Alto is Bolivia’s second-largest...

... Chapter 1 charts the fall of Evo Morales, a most unusual politician, who helped transform his country, Bolivia, and then overstayed his welcome. Evo Morales Aymara peoples 2019 Bolivian election Jeanine Añez Luis Arce Catacora ...

... Methodist and Lutheran pastors of Aymara origin—and both creeds were published in the ecumenical journal Fe y Pueblo (Faith and the People) in 1987. They were inspired by the so-called rereadings of the Bible popularized by the Brazilian biblical scholar Carlos Mesters, who proposed a reinterpretation...

... on riverine and lacustrine resources. For their Aymara neighbors, the Urus are primitive peoples—associated with shadowy, watery realms of the Chullpa ancestors—from the time prior to the emergence of Andean civilization. The myth is found in many communities that once formed part of Qollasuyu. This version...

...—in this case, the gathering in the town of Carabuco (La Paz) also included Methodist and Lutheran pastors of Aymara origin—and both creeds were published in the ecumenical journal Fe y Pueblo (Faith and the People) in 1987. They were inspired by the so-called rereadings of the Bible popularized...

... resistance in response, and Melgarejo’s creole adversaries teamed with Aymara communities to besiege the city of La Paz and topple the dictator. The documents that follow, originally published in the anti-Melgarejo newspaper El Noticioso , chronicle the militarized campaign of indigenous peasants...

... their ancestral “indigenous” identity for the class status of “peasants.” Yet despite the overhaul of the land-tenure regime, by the 1960s, the illusions of progress began to dissipate. Above all on the Aymara altiplano, different organizations began to pursue a more autonomous course, and they adopted the name...

... Poopó. They are distinguished from Aymara communities by their distinctive Uru Chipaya language as well as by forms of dress and their reliance on riverine and lacustrine resources. For their Aymara neighbors, the Urus are primitive peoples—associated with shadowy, watery realms of the Chullpa ancestors...

... “ Living well”— vivir bien or buen vivir in Spanish—is a translation of the Aymara term suma qamaña and the Quechua sumak kawsay, which are now offcially taken up in the constitutions of Bolivia and Ecuador. The language also circulates in other parts of Latin America and even other continents...

... of three cousins from the same Aymara peasant community near Viacha who joined the guerrilla organization in Ñancahuazú in January 1967. A migrant worker in La Paz, he had become enthusiastic about the Communist Party in 1963: “I wanted the revolution to triumph so that the equality of rights...

... of the period. The testimony of women active in the cooks union provides a vivid picture of what anarchosyndicalist organization meant in the lives of urban working women of popular Aymara background, commonly known as cholas. The earliest and brightest of the leading lights of socialism...

... Evo Morales was born in 1959 in a small Aymara community in the department of Oruro, where he herded llamas as a child. He studied Spanish for the first time during a period of months with his family in Argentina when he was six years old. He attended high school and played trumpet in a band...

... in Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua and joined the patriots fighting against Spain as a young man. He was a writer by vocation, though his style is unpolished, and his diary, covering the period between 1814 and 1825, is an observant account of provincial guerrilla warfare that sheds light on material economic...

.... The first peasant unions had emerged in Cochabamba in the Ucureña area, in 1936. President Víctor Paz Estenssoro returned to the same location on 2 August 1953, to promulgate the Agrarian Reform Decree, in Spanish with oral translations in Quechua and Aymara. The announcement was met with the warm applause...

... in 1786 praised Segurola as “that chief who freed you from disaster, when the infernal serpent of Catari and Tupac Amaru … infested this kingdom with their poison.” In mid-1781, Julián Apaza, who took the name Tupaj Katari (Resplendent Serpent), was at the head of tens of thousands of Aymara...

... both more slowly and with greater violence. The first peasant unions had emerged in Cochabamba in the Ucureña area, in 1936. President Víctor Paz Estenssoro returned to the same location on 2 August 1953, to promulgate the Agrarian Reform Decree, in Spanish with oral translations in Quechua and Aymara...