Indigenous universities graduate first students

Bolivian President Evo Morales handed out degrees to the first graduates of the country’s three indigenous universities recently at a joint graduation ceremony, asserting that they would fight colonialism as well as honour the memories of indigenous Bolivian heroes, writes Rick Kearns for Indian Country.

On 2 August, as part of the celebration of Community Agrarian Revolution Day in the city of Cochabamba, Morales gave the keynote address to the 118 indigenous students who were receiving degrees and certificates from either Tupac Katari Aymara University, Apiaguaiki Tupa Guarani University, or Casimiro Huanca Quechua University.

Morales, who is Aymara, asserted that the creation of the universities – by his administration – served as a just homage to the indigenous leaders who died fighting against colonialist regimes of the distant and recent past.
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