Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kohl, Benjamin
• Farthing, Linda C
• Muruchi, Flix

Titel

From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activists Life

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Austin: University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Flix 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 Flix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through the next sixty years of Bolivias turbulent history. As a teenager, Flix followed his father into the tin mines before serving a compulsory year in the military, during which he witnessed the 1964 coup dtat 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 2006the year of his sixtieth birthdayto the inauguration of Evo Morales as Bolivias first indigenous president. The authors weave Muruchis compelling recollections with contextual commentary that elucidates Bolivian history. The combination of an unforgettable life story and in-depth text boxes makes this a gripping, effective account, destined to become a classic sourcebook.