LAST week, I mentioned the Bolivian revolutionary artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913–?1960) and, here, I would like to do his remarkable career greater justice.
Justice, indeed, is what it is really about, as that question mark hints.
Yllanes was an Aymara, a people whose extensive territories in Bolivia and Peru were absorbed first by the Incas and then the Spanish. They remain a significant minority in both countries, despite efforts to eradicate their culture. Bolivia fought wars with all its neighbours in the 19th and 20th centuries and, apparently, holds the world record for coups, few benefiting the Aymara.
During the 1930s, there was
