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...their white skin. Look at the 15 members of the new cabinet. They are no different. Look at the protestors: the miners, the coca growers, the poor and hungry. See their faces: dark and wrinkled. They have different brows, different cheeks. They are the color of the earth in Bolivia...
There are simple truths at work in Bolivia, and though there are exceptions (there are always exceptions), in acknowledging those truths we come to understand why they’re painful. The white people in Bolivia are rich. They are not all white like we think of white. Their skin is not palely freckled like an Irishman or ruddy red like a Norwegian. They are people the color of beach sand, descended from the Spanish who came 500 years ago and engorged themselves and their empire on Potosí’s silver. They hold the money...
...Indian people of Bolivia are not rich. They do not live in the moneyed neighborhoods of La Paz. They are subsistence farmers and coca growers and miners. They are the present and they are the protesters. For Quechua and the Aymara people, the natives of Bolivia, their identity is bound tightly in race or non-race (non-whiteness...
...Chilean man living in the countryside once sought to explain the differences between Chilean and Peruvian people to me. He searched for some way to bottle up their grand conflict, to explain why Peru was just different than Chile. (Peru, like Bolivia, has a much larger percentage of indigenous population than Chile.) Finally, he hit upon his key point...
...temporarily quell the fires that light La Paz and El Alto tonight. Until there is an open and public dialogue between indigenous Bolivians and those of European heritage, until Bolivian Indians have an investment in their own governing, those fires will only smolder until the next uprising. And Bolivia will burn again...