Title From the mines to the streets : a Bolivian activist's life / Benjamin Kohl and Linda Farthing ; with Félix Muruchi

Edition 1st ed Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Series The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere. Contents pt. 1. Growing up in the fields and the mines -- pt. 2. The mines -- pt. 3. From exile to exile -- pt. 4. Activist in El Alto Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Muruchi Poma, Feliciano Félix, 1946- SUBJECT Muruchi Poma, Feliciano Félix, 1946- fast Subject Political activists -- Bolivia -- Biography Labor leaders -- Bolivia -- Biography Miners -- Bolivia -- Biography Indigenous peoples -- Bolivia -- Social conditions -- 20th century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions Labor leaders Miners Political activists Politics and government Social conditions SUBJECT Bolivia -- Politics and government -- 1952-1982. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015409 Bolivia -- Politics and government -- 1982-2006. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015410 Bolivia -- Social conditions -- 1952-1982. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015412 Bolivia -- Social conditions -- 1982- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015413 Subject Bolivia Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Kohl, Benjamin H Farthing, Linda ISBN 9780292734753 0292734751

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