Word: oruro
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...windswept Bolivian tin-mining center of Oruro, garishly garbed Indian miners paraded through the streets last week behind some 60 mules and oxen laden with silverware and assorted household objects. Arriving at the Church of the Virgin of the Cave, patroness of Oruro tin diggers, the marchers symbolically offered their silver and china to the Virgin -just as their ancestors brought metal and pottery objects to their gods to seek good fortune. Then an Indian cast in the role of Lucifer, masked and cloaked in red velvet, capered into the area before the church doors. Thus began La Diablada...
...autos sacramentales (Belshazzar's Feast, The Divine Orpheus), these religious dramatizations, similar to the earlier English mystery plays, reached their peak popularity. After that, their appeal dwindled and they all but disappeared from the holy-days celebrations outside the churches of the Spanish-speaking world. But in remote Oruro, 12,000 ft. up in the Bolivian Andes, the auto still flourishes with strong Indian overtones, and last week, as usual at carnival time, the show...
...shouting, the mob boiled down La Paz' cobbled streets to the jail. There they broke in, seized Jorge Eguino and José Escobar, the Villarroel police chiefs held since July for trial. These were the men who had admitted directing the massacre of scores of oppositionist leaders at Oruro in November 1944. Both were dragged twelve blocks to the plaza's lampposts. Escobar was probably dead before he got there, but they hanged him anyway...