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Bolivia: Aymara Women Working as ‘Voceadoras’ in El Alto

Posted 29 August 2011 19:14 GMT

Alberto Medrano shares two videos of Aymara women in El Alto working in minibuses as voceadoras: women who announce the vehicle's route and collect the passengers’ money. Cristina Quisbert blogged about these women in 2008 in Bolivia Indígena [es].

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Written bySilvia Viñas

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