Bolivia carries out a key national registration this Saturday for the distribution of income between regions. Counting the population of a country should be a technical activity, but in Bolivia it is deeply political.

The measurement will determine how far the loss of native languages ​​has progressed. There is a movement to reject the declaration of the country as a Plurinational State, which has been based on the strongly indigenous character of the population. The cities have fought back, setting up a “neighborhood control” to detect and sanction with fewer works neighborhoods in which “desertion” of inhabitants is observed.