Corocoro - Bolivia

  This week, I want to invite you listen to Elena McGrath's take on the Bolivian Revolution. I enjoyed learning about her research and Elena's granular study of the effects of the revolution on the mining site of Corocoro (La Paz). Elena McGrath  is an assistant professor at Union College. Her work focuses on revolutionary movements, race, gender, and natural resources in Latin America, with an emphasis on the Bolivian Andes. They seek to understand how culture and material conditions create revolutions. Her fieldwork concentrated on the mining town of Coro-coro, a mining center in La Paz, close to the Chilean border. In this interview, Elena helps us understand how the lives of mine workers and their families changed after the revolution. Elena demonstrates that the revolution brought the mine workers and their families an unprecedented sense of citizenship that did not limit to the right to vote but also to the right to education, health, and social security linked to their w