... Paz was plunged into mourning. The poet Blanca Wiethüchter (1947–2004) captures the tragic moment in densely textured language that evokes the sinister repression and the indignant resistance. With a sense of shock and an awareness of the transcendent, the poem draws on symbolic elements from popular...

... and indignation and contributed to the escalating conflict that became known as the Gas War. By the time President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada had resigned and fled to the United States, on 17 October, some fifty-seven civilians had been killed and four hundred wounded. In the aftermath of Black October...

..., on the altiplano of La Paz, an errant bullet took the life of an eight-year-old girl, Marlene Nancy Rojas Ramos, on 20 September. The repression in Warisata generated popular fury and indignation and contributed to the escalating conflict that became known as the Gas War. By the time President Gonzalo Sánchez de...

... were killed or disappeared over a two-week period, and La Paz was plunged into mourning. The poet Blanca Wiethüchter (1947–2004) captures the tragic moment in densely textured language that evokes the sinister repression and the indignant resistance. With a sense of shock and an awareness...