El Alto, a key to the social stability and politics of the Plurinational State of Bolivia                           

The geographical configuration of Bolivia is strange. In particular the orographic situation of the capital of the country, the city of La Paz. The tall

La Paz is located in a valley on the margin of the Altiplano about 3,600 meters high.

In the proper margin of the Altiplano, at 4,000 meters high, where the airport is located, some neighborhoods inhabited by poor people developed.

This place is called El Alto. The land and houses are cheaper because it is a rather inhospitable arid place, where it is cold every morning and intense radiation every noon.

The problems have been accustomed to the lack of oxygen and many must travel daily to La Paz to work and sell their products. Peace

So many people have settled in El Alto that today it has more population than the city of La Paz itself. El Alto has 800,000 inhabitants and La Paz itself 700,000.                                                              La Paz

A curiosity of La Paz is that it is only accessed from above, to get to the center of the city you have to go through El Alto. Even if you arrive by air you must pass through El Alto, which is where the airport is located.

It should be noted that there are roads that reach La Paz from the mountains and valleys at a lower height, from the region known as “the yungas” but are impracticable, limiting access to La Paz by the highland routes and therefore So much going through El Alto.

The roads to the yungas are very difficult to travel due to steep slopes. For that reason it is called the "road of death" is disabled for older vehicles.

From an ethnic point of view, the alterations are predominantly Aymara and are very socially and politically organized. It is not possible to control La Paz, and consequently to govern Bolivia, against the will of the alter population.                                              Road to the yungas

For that reason any government that tries to install has to negotiate with the alterations.

If they wish, the organizations of El Alto can paralyze the city of La Paz, both because of the need for travelers to pass through El Alto to reach the capital, as well as the possibility that alterations have of blocking access to products and even of the workers of La Paz, who in large numbers come from El Alto.

That is, sooner or later this situation has to be resolved, the raw fascism that is being imposed in Bolivia will have to deal with a large, ethnically homogeneous and politically organized opposition, the population and organizations of El Alto.