Eastern Bolivia: The White Promised Land

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Norman Lewis
Number of pages: 27
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Bolivia
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1978
Release Month | Day: apr-78

Tags: Land rights, Human rights

The Indians of Bolivia, already exploited by a military dictatorship, will have to take up more of the white man's burden if South Africans and Rhodesians accept an in­vitation to colonise the country. White South Africans, ac­customed to the excesses of their own police, will find much that is familiar in Bolivia. Police used violence against a mass hunger strike in La Paz recently and broke into a news­paper office to arrest 800 people who were seeking sanctuary.

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