From the Mines to the Streets A Bolivian Activist's Life

Name: From the Mines to the Streets A Bolivian Activist's Life
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ISBN: 9780292743922

ISBN-10: 0292743920

ISBN-13: 9780292743922

Edition: 2011

Authors: Benjamin H. Kohl, Linda C. Farthing, Fï¿½lix Muruchi, Fï¿½lix Muruchi

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 4/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

LINDA C. FARTHING has written and edited curriculum materials, books, and articles on Latin America and Nepal; field-produced documentary films in Colombia and Bolivia; and directed college semester-abroad programs.

Fï¿½LIX MURUCHI continues to be socially and politically active. He is co-author of Ponchos Rojos and Minero con Poder de Dinamita.