On the International Day of People of African Descent we demand the inclusion and recognition of the Afro Bolivian communities in the Political Constitution of the Pluri national State as an essential part of the Bolivian nation, together with the native indigenous peasant peoples and intercultural communities.
With Law 138 of June 14, 2011, we declare the living cultural artistic expression “Saya Afro boliviana” with its cradle and origin in Los Yungas de La Paz, as Historical Cultural and Intangible Heritage of our beloved Bolivia. In this special commemoration, we join the voices of the free peoples of the world who condemn all doctrines of racial superiority that lead to discrimination, exclusion and hate crimes.
Afro-Bolivians are descendants of the enslaved West Africans brought by the Spanish between the 16th and 19th Centuries to work in the mines of Potosí, a city in south-western Bolivia. The mines are notorious for claiming the lives of roughly 8 million enslaved indigenous South Americans and Africans over a 300-year period many of whom died as a result of being overworked, underfed and suffering in the region’s extreme cold.
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