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Bolivia: Native Languages in the Public Bureaucracy

Categories: Latin America, Bolivia, Governance, Indigenous

Ermapelo of Ciudad de Patas [es] wonders about the push in the new Constitution that seeks that all public employees in the Bolivian government speak at least one native language [1], and how many of the terms used in bureaucracy do not have equivalents in those languages. In the end, much of the conversation will eventually be in Spanish.