Format:
Online-Ressource (xxvii, 233 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780292723962
Series Statement:
William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
Content:
From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces Félix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through the next sixty years of Bolivia's turbulent history. As a teenager, Félix followed his father into the tin mines before serving a compulsory year in the military, during which he witnessed the 1964 coup d'état that plunged the country into eighteen years of military rule. He returned to work in the mines, where he quickly rose to become a union leader. The reward for his activism was imprisonment, torture, and exile. After he came home, he participated actively in the struggles against neoliberal governments, which led in 2006 -- the year of his sixtieth birthday-- to the inauguration of Evo Morales as Bolivia's first indigenous president
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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pt. 1. Growing up in the fields and the minespt. 2. The mines -- pt. 3. From exile to exile -- pt. 4. Activist in El Alto.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780292734753
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kohl, Benjamin H. From the mines to the streets Austin, Tex. : Univ. of Texas Press, 2011 ISBN 0292723962
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780292723962
Language:
English
