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The Red Nation Podcast

Bolivia is medicine for the world w/ Vivi Camacho

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

History, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Vivi Camacho (@LuzFloreciendo) is Quechua and the General Director of Traditional Medicine for the Plurinational State of Bolivia. She talks about the Bolivian project of building Indigenous socialism in the twenty first century, from the legacy of Che Guevara, to the US-backed coup in 2019, and the reconstruction of democracy today.

 

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0:00.0

And So, Don't come on.

0:25.0

go on me.

0:37.0

Don't count on me.

0:39.0

Don't count on me. So if you could just start by introducing yourself and who you are and where we're at.

0:54.0

Okay.

0:56.0

So my point I have to go to go to go and

0:58.0

to go and a pike with a pike with all the time

0:59.0

and go to go and gan una,

1:00.0

so I'm going to be a mache.

1:02.0

Kay Bolivio, Kameh, Kai Bolivia, Koli, this is my mother language. I am Ketchua from the

1:06.6

Prui National State of Bolivia and here we are in La Pass, Bolivia. My name is Vivi, Camacho Hosa.

1:13.0

Yeah, it is so amazing to be here in the highest place in the world

1:18.0

with Nick and making this year interview.

1:21.0

Welcome to Bolivian Nick.

1:22.0

Thanks so much for hosting us. making this year interview. Welcome to Bolivianic.

1:23.0

Thanks so much for hosting us.

1:25.0

It's been a beautiful experience the last week.

1:28.0

Obviously, we wish we could have stayed longer.

1:30.0

But last night, we were having a really beautiful conversation and you were telling this wonderful story about how

1:37.6

Che Guevara wasn't a because he was assassinated here in Bolivia, but he wasn't a martyr, but he was a seed.

1:44.1

And I was wondering if you could talk a little bit more about how, you know,

1:48.6

Bolivians have received Che Guevara, but also how indigenous Bolivians, the, you know, the stories about him, but also how he's recognized as a saint of the people.

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