About a million people took to the streets of Bolivia’s capital city La Paz on Friday to protest efforts to move the nation’s capital. According to news reports, the crowd was made up of La Paz residents and members of the Aymara community bused in from the surrounding countryside. They were all united ,waving the red and green La Paz state flag. The executive and legislative branches of the Bolivian government are based in La Paz while the judicial branch is located 255 miles to the southeast, in Sucre. Bolivia was officially founded in Sucre in 1825 but lost its capital title in 1899 in a civil war.

Eastern states argue that Sucre, nearer the country’s center, can better represent the entire country than La Paz, which is on Bolivia’s far western edge.
La Paz backers say switching the capital from Bolivia’s largest city, with a metropolitan population of 1.7 million, to Sucre, population 250,000, would be expensive and divisive.

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