Crossing borders in the Atacama highlands: Mobility, economies and ethnicity (1950-present)

Paving a route: Transportation and Aymara politics between Bolivia and Chile

“…They also control the tone at the border, which they monitor and protect even as they organize a way to cross it. The same people who have a capital interest in the huge flow of traffic between Pisiga and Oruro organize and participate in cross-border fairs where goods from both sides of the border are exchanged in different ways (mainly bartering and buying) (see Garcés et al, 2019;Richard et al, 2018). The leaders comment especially on the Coipasa, Pisiga, Parajalla and Palpuni fairs, all located a few kilometers north or south of the Colchane-Pisiga border crossing.…”