... After the outbreak of the indigenous insurrection in 1780, the Spanish-born military offcer Sebastián de Segurola (1740–89) was transferred from Larecaja, where he was corregidor, to the city of La Paz. There he headed the defense of the city as it came under siege in 1781 and kept...

... This chapter features Patricia Ybarra’s interview with Machos director and Teatro Luna cofounder Coya Paz. In this interview, Paz elucidates how Teatro Luna created Machos , sharing that the group initially sought to interview men about Latina women and to perform as men talking about Latina...

... of the actual implementation of the decrees, only a small number of communities were able to consolidate titles and a far larger number had their lands confiscated and sold to the highest bidder. Widespread indigenous opposition to the forced expropriations in the Aymara provinces surrounding La Paz crescendoed...

... The metaphor and reality of death were central to Sergio Almaraz Paz’s eloquent political essay Requiem for a Republic (1969). A left-nationalist critic of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, Almaraz (1928–68) felt that the revolution had succumbed even before the advent of right-wing...

... Sergio Almaraz Paz (1928–68) began his political activities as a young man in the “Liberty Study Center” run by Angélica Ascui, an important middle-class activist linked to anarchist and feminist causes. He entered the Revolutionary Left Party ( pir ) and then, in 1950, at the age of twenty-two...

... beg you to make use, you yourself, of this powerful agent of life, so that you can, with me, return to be seen by this Lima which loves you and misses you.” Excerpted here are Gorriti’s prologue and her daughter’s recipe for humintas (steamed corn cakes) from La Paz. ...

.... The most compelling voice heard was that of a young mnr congressman from Tarija, Víctor Paz Estenssoro. Astutely, Paz Estenssoro sought to rehabilitate the image of the armed forces while condemning the government, and to distance the mnr from the Marxist left while seeking to represent proletarian...

... Néstor Paz Zamora was representative of the restless sectors of the urban middle class that founded or joined leftist parties and the armed struggle. His brother, Jaime Paz Zamora, would found the Revolutionary Left Movement ( mir ) and later go on to become president in 1989. A former...