¿Convergencias o caminos paralelos? Rebeliones rurales y movimientos reformistas/revolucionarios urbanos en las tierras altas de la frontera bolivanoargentina (década de 1920).

In the long tradition of resistance and struggles for land, the rural Andean areas of Peru and Bolivia took part in a wave of rebellions that, in the years from 1919 to 1923, number over 50. The articulation of these movements -- and their leaders -- with urban sectors was frequent. In addition to the occasional alliances with sectors of elite leadership, the 1920s saw the development of a novel dynamic; established contacts with confrontational, radical reformist or revolutionary groups that were aware of the problem of land and property in indigenous communities. Within the framework of the connections between these sectors and the Bolivian "caciques apoderados", we analyze the actions of Roberto Hinojosa who led, in 1930, a frustrated worker-campesino revolution in Villazón, a city on the Argentine-Bolivian border. The movement coincided with agitation in the rural world and the proposals of Radicalism in Jujuy (the Argentine province on the border) with respect to turning ancient indigenous lands into public ones. By integrating an analysis of the international border spaces, we come to a different understanding of these events that, seen from the metropolitan perspective of national histories can at first appear to be marginal. These events acquire another dimension when analyzed through the lens of border regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]