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Despite of the interest of Bolivian Spanish for Latin American dialectology, this variety is still one of the most unknown in the continent, specially from a diachronic point of view. This paper aims to be a contribution to the history of the Spanish language in the Andean part of the country. Thus, it describes the most important phonological features of this variety of Spanish at the beginning of 19th. century; the letters that María Guadalupe Cuenca de Moreno (high-level woman, born in Chuquisaca in 1790) writes to her husband from Buenos Aires in 1811 are the corpus used for this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a reply to the article by Sergio Villalobos entitled "Bolivia y el mar" that appeared in Cuadernos de Historia N° 28. It deals with the colonial boundaries between the Charcas Audience and Chile, from legal, historical, and documentary viewpoints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to close the debate initiated with Mr. Miguel Barros, about the presentation of the royal dispositions, cartographical data and the activities of the authorities from Charcas and Chile, about maritime limits between both countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the magnitude and variation of ethnic discrimination accross different schooling and geographical niches of the Bolivian labor market. We find that ethnic wage differentials in the Altiplano region are associated with productivity differentials between the indigenous and non-indigenous population, and not with labor market discrimination. However, ethnic discrimination is significant -and in fact more important- than productivity differentials in the Llanos and Valle regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]