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[email protected] Rooted in La Paz – Bolivia, July 2013 :BolivianExpress @Bolivianexpress www.bolivianexpress.org History a tierra es de quien la trabaja’—’Th e land belongs to those who work it’, proclaimed the Zapatistas at the turn of the 20th Century, as Emiliano Zapata spearheaded the historical movement which we now remember as the Mexican Revolution. ‘L 40 years later, this same slogan propelled Bolivian campesinos to demand broad socioeconomic changes in a country which hadn’t yet granted them basic citizenship rights, let alone recognised they made up over 70% of the country’s population. A broad-sweeping Agrarian Reform followed in 1953, giving these peasants unprecedented ownership and control over the land they worked on. Th e Bolivian Revolution of 1952 also enfranchised women and those considered illiterate (a convenient proxy for campes- inos), causing a fi vefold increase in the number of people eligible to vote.