From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist’s Life

Index

Index Page numbers in italics refer to images. age of rebellion, 10 Agrarian Reform (1953), xxv–xxvi, 11, 52, 208 Aguas del Illimani, 205, 206 Alacalufes, 122 Alandia Pantoja, Miguel, 64 Alarcón, René, 197 Albania, 77, 103, 140, 146 alcohol: and miners, 32, 39, 41, 57, 84; in rural life, 16, 21, 24 Alicia, Doña. See Escobar, Doña Alicia Allende, Salvador, 100, 124, 126 alteños, 195–196, 201, 203. See also El Alto altiplano, xxiii, 20–21, 66, 124, 199 altitude sickness, 146, 183 Alto Peru, 9. See also Bolivia Amsterdam, 136, 160–161, 163, 169, 170 ancestor worship, 21 Andean peoples, pre-Hispanic, 4–5 Andrade,Angel, 190, 191–192 Aramayo. See Tin Barons Arancibia, 80 Araníbar, Ernesto, 190–191 Arbona, Juan, 205 Arce,Adrián, 116 Arce, Fausto, 116, 119, 125–129, 137, 143, 162 Arce, Luis, 158 Argentina, 12, 68, 117, 118, 125–126, 134, 136, 161–162, 172 Ayacucho College, 202 ayllus, 3, 5, 9–10, 19–22, 24, 85, 179; authority in, 21–24 Aymara, xxiii, 4, 5, 31, 138, 207 Aymara Katarista movement, 95, 195 Ayoreos, xxiii Banzerato, 96–99. See also Banzer Suárez, Hugo Banzer Suárez, Hugo, 80, 91, 94–96, 99, 100, 108, 117, 118, 141, 152, 155, 157, 181, 187, 195, 197, 201; fall of, 142–144 Barbie, Klaus, 157 Barrientos Ortuño, René, 48–49, 51–52, 54, 68, 73–74, 81, 82, 85, 94, 181 Barsolas, 49. See also National Revolutionary Movement Batista, Fulgencio, 172 bayeta, 86 Bayrón,Tomás, 117 Bedoya, Carlos, 159 Beltze Rodríguez, Eduardo, 206 Bernal, Gilberto, 61, 62, 100, 105 Black February, 202, 203 black lung, 4, 32, 57, 70, 83, 103, 164 Bolivia, xxiv, 10; democracy in, xxv, 3, 95, 100, 108, 141, 147, 152, 165; economy of, xxiv–xxvi, 27, 31, 49, 165–166, 182; natural resources of, xxiv, 74, 141, 208; racial makeup of, xxiii–xxiv 224 Bolivian Communist Party (Partido Comunista de Bolivia, or PCB), 72–73, 77, 78, 79, 89, 92, 152 Bolivian Mining Corporation. See COMIBOL Bolivian Socialist Falange (Falange Socialista Boliviana, or FSB), 77–78, 96 Bolivian Workers Central (Central Obrera Boliviana, or COB), xxv, 63–64, 72–74, 91, 95, 96, 100, 105–106, 144, 145, 153, 154, 157, 182, 194, 198; alliance with UDP, 166 Brazil, 12, 59, 117, 134, 165, 172 Burgoa,Tito, 90 Bush, Natusch, 152 Camacho, Isaac, 69 Camacho Artillery Regiment, 42, 51 Camargo,Artemio, 151, 156 campesino activism. See indigenous peoples of Bolivia: activist movements of campesino-military pact, 49 campesinos, 11–12, 29, 44–45, 49, 53–54, 73, 86, 95, 157, 194, 198, 207 Campos,Teodoro, 111 Cañiri mine, 35 Carcomo, Sergeant, 132 cargos, 22 Caritas, 185, 187 Carter, Jimmy, 144, 157 Castro, Fidel, 172, 175 Catavi massacre, 49 Catavi mine, 4, 27, 57, 65, 120 Catholic Church, 8, 9, 61, 121, 138, 148 Centraal Missie Commissariaat (CEBEMO), 168, 173 Chaco War, 10, 29, 44, 206 ch’alla ritual, 58, 84–85 Chapare, 14, 194–195, 198 Chila, Macabeo, 86, 87 children, in Bolivia, 183 Chile, 12, 48, 68, 100–102, 103, 117–118, 140, 161–162, 198, 203, 208; Ministry of the Interior, 119, 131 Chiloé, 118, 119, 129, 131, 138, 205; climate of, 124; economy of, 123; fishing in, 122–123; tourism in, 124–125 Chimanes, xxiii China, 77, 140, 143, 161, 168 chinos (Chinese), 73, 77 Chiquitanos, xxiii cholo, 207 Choque,Teodoro, 75, 78 chullo, 30–31 Chungara de Barrios, Domitila, 75–76, 77, 141, 208 class consciousness, 58, 95 COB. See Bolivian Workers Central Cocaine Coup. See García Meza coup cocaine trade, 14, 95, 144, 158, 194 coca leaf, 12–14, 16, 21, 38, 83–85, 141, 194–195, 198; and cocaine, 14, 95, 182 Cochabamba, xxvi, 10, 30, 45, 53, 154, 195, 207 comadre. See compadre COMIBOL (Corporación Minera de Bolivia), 30, 31–32, 33, 36, 48, 57, 63–65, 118, 145, 182; schools, 58 comisario, 23 Communist Manifesto, 76 communist parties, in Bolivia. See PCB; PCML Communist Party, 61, 75, 105 compadrazgo, 148 compadre, 148 COMSUR, 59 COMTECO, 147 concentration camps, 118 CONDEPA. See Patriotic Conscience Condepillos, 195. See also Palenque, Carlos Condor,Valentín, 86–88 Confederation of Bolivian Private index 225 Businessmen (Confederación de Empresarios Privados de Bolivia, or CEPB), 166 Confederation of Campesino Workers’ Unions of Bolivia (Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia...