 
How far are you, how Father You are from my anxiety. My tears, my sun, my heaven Will Be Crying, but again I do not cry, my love ... (The Nile Song Soruco Caracas) was the song of Defiance and Hope That the Exiles chanted Bolivian, WHO since July 1980, Had Begun to Reach the Various Existing refugee camps in Sweden.
Have passed since that time 30 years. The various means deprensa have compiled the antecedents and consequences of that bloody coup led by Luis Garcia Meza and Luis Arce Gomes.
The first Bolivian who landed in 1976 in the remote and almost unknown kingdom of Sweden, were pursued by La mining leaders dictatorship of Hugo Banzer Suarez, who launched his regime on August 21, 1971. The High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), made possible the output of:Manuel Duchen, Alejandro Alvarez, Eduardo Dalence, Dionicio Coca Juaniquina Paulino and Jose Alarcon, exiled leaders-initially-in the south of Chile, in a period of casualties agreements Plan Condor, that sister-Banzer dictatorship of Pinochet.
Due to the precarious situation in Bolivia and the lack of guarantees for labor and political leaders after the 1978 elections, many of the exiles, from different parts of the world - could not return home until after the enactment of the amnesty, which led to the election of 1979 injured.
The military coup of 1980 caused an exodus of Bolivians again. And again that Sweden would be granted political asylum to hundreds of union leaders and politicians in Bolivia. Many Bolivians arrived in Sweden among them Luis Zamorano, Orlando Gutierrez, Luis Ferrufino, family Millan, family Valencia Toranzos, Graciela Landaeta, Elizabeth Landaeta,Fredy Ferrufino,Rene Guarachi and many other family and its Bolivian partners.
One of the many Bolivians who also landed in 1981 in the distant and almost unknown kingdom of Sweden, was the political leader and Professor Don Jose Valencia Grills leader and teacher representative to the Bolivian Workers' Centre COB pursued by the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer Suarez Luis Garcia Meza and his regimes inaugurated in 1971 and 1980. Professor Valencia later in 1986 founded the Cultural Centre in Norrköping, Sweden Bolivia.
The arrivals in such circumstances were taken to refugee camps in the districts of Öxölesund. Alvesta Hallstahammar, Surahammar, Ronneby, Moheda and another where the Bolivians were mixed with exiles also Uruguayans, Chileans and Argentines. All had a common political language: resistance to the Southern Cone military dictatorships.
The number of compatriots arrived in this country for political and economic reasons until the 90's, was about 4000 families who settled mainly in four major cities in Sweden: Stockholm and Malmö Gotemburgo.Norrköping motivated, as a necessity, since 1980 to organize first, politicians and trade unionists, the Bolivian Workers Central (in exile) to promote, in coordination similar actions exist in France, reporting and garciamecista rejection of the dictatorship.
The children, at that time, many in the trance of youth identified by language, nationality and customs of place, Oruro, Cochabamba, La Paz and mining centers, began to turn these lands to broaden its ties cultivating friendship and Bolivian music, as well as football.
"Pukaj Huayra" Veyzaga formed by the brothers, the "Atipiri Marka" Clash of the brothers, "The Carrillanos" of the brothers in 1985 Callisaya later took the name "Arum" which continues to date with the interpretation of music autochthonous "Kollasuyo" (now adopted another mode and now call themselves World Folk), brothers Salazar and "Bolivia Libre" which will disintegrate after aalgún time are the bands that have toured Sweden participated in almost all events Solidarity convened by Chilean exiles, Uruguay, Argentina and Central Americans who like the Bolivians had been forced to leave their country.
The reopening of the democratic process in Bolivia, with the inauguration in October 1983 Hernán Siles for the presidency of the republic, elected with Jaime Paz Zamora, Democratic and Popular Unity (UDP), allowed the return of many to the country . But Swedish exile, described as the "golden exile" for its welfare and social security, submitted in stark choice leaders who left their wives and children in this country, as they resumed the trade union and political struggle in Bolivia.
Given the political instability and economic crisis for the government of the UDP, and after the elections in 1985 laelección viable Victor Paz Estenssoro, its measurement Decree 21060, the highest causes of unemployment in the history of Bolivia and following it around people who benefits by the Swedish state did not lose their residence permit. The Bolivian community begins to grow again and is organized into associations to sporting and cultural promotion.
The Bolivian community
 
Football was primarily the articulator for all young Bolivians who took the initiative to build sports tournaments on behalf of their respective cities. Malmö were rooted in families with many children, Cadima, Torres and Ortiz are surnames that city subsequently forged the creation of a sports association coming to intervene in the Swedish league amateur football.
Gothenburg, Sweden's second city, is the hotbed of young athletes, of which Martin Smedberg-Dalence stands promoted to professional football. Other young Bolivians: Daniel Gabriel Alessandro Saucedo, whose stage name is Danny Saucedo. In the world of youth club Torrico Dj Bruno have LeBraun along with another great DJ at the international level as Valencia DJ Patrick Iriarte Tokador two traveling playing disjokes in the best clubs in Sweden and Europe are now in the glitzy world of music young and successful future.
Estolcolmo, as the Swedish capital was the city for many of the greatest opportunities to study or work, and also there our young people demonstrate their skills in music and sports.
For everyone, young and old, was of vital importance to meet and share time, memories and experiences of far away. Singing and dancing was assumed as a sort of balm to cure nostalgia. If it were not it would be a sideshow football game (mutual) where from the fifties up to the court admitted each year on behalf of the classic La Paz: stronguistas bolivars.
Recently in 1987, of those sports events, the Bolivian colony decides to launch a call for "Bolivian Meeting" and 24 years have passed since that overcoming great difficulties maintaining this community tradition to live for one week, housed under one roof in an educational institution for the tricolor waving Bolivian and sing till you drop "my homeland Bolivia live ... a great nation, it also give my life my heart ..."
The idea of forming a federation to bind to the growing associations in Bolivia, takes shape only in 1989. From there forward the Bolivian National Federation of Associations (FEDBOL), it becomes an institution that consolidates annual carrying Bolivian Encounters with rotating seat and always in the last week of July. in addition to promoting cultural this country with the presence of singers, painters and writers Bolivians.
It was also promotes solidarity work with social organizations in Bolivia. Just to name a few: Antawara associations Bolivia, Bolivia Norrköping Cultural Center in the construction of Mussels in Timorous esculita Low Cochabamba, Latin American Roots (Arla), the band Pukaj Huayra, separately cooperated in the construction of educational facilities in the Alto and Cochabamba. Force of Los Andes (formerly Children of the Andes), delivers an ambulance to Children's Hospital. There are currently several organizations that support projects in Bolivia.
Bolivian Meeting
 
The first was in 1989 and is determined from its celebration that year for a week. Fedbol born the same year in the city of Västerås, as its first president Vladimir Aruscurinaga. Associate other names that shaped the future of the first national organization of Bolivian residents: Fredy Portillo, José Terán, Fredy Ferrufino, Ramiro Dalence, Alfredo Alcon, Julia Rene Falcon and Zegarra, who was president for several years and is still in the directors as its secretary general.
Zegarra René former Secretary General of South Central Mining Magisterium, is in the town of Eskilstuna and works in the Volvo factory, and only recently announced that travel to Bolivia in September after 30 years.
"Consider that each Bolivian meeting for him and his family is a kind of therapy, which allowed him during these years, do not lose their cultural identity and cope with the challenges of Swedish society."
With the passage of time some groups come and gone, but their contributions are recognized for: Swedish Association of Children Bolivia, Illimani Association both in the city of Västerås, and others in his short life, bet for encouraging turn in children and youth a love of music, dance as well as to preserve the language.
In 1991 he created a new group: the fraternity "The Dark" in Stockholm being the first dance group that once had its own brass band composed entirely of Swedes who interpreted the Bolivian music of the moraine. In 1993 the fraternity visit Bolivia and in the main plaza in Cochabamba gave a concert. Other groups that have made appearances in the country, contains the Blood of the Condor Association of the City of Stockholm. Other presentations in Europe.
Bolivian organizations: integration bridge. In fact there are 25 member associations Fedbol, hosting approximately 13 young people different nationalities. It is just like antecdota situations before when in meetings discussing the right to allow football matches in just three "foreigners". The IF-Bolivia club in the city of Malmö, which is involved in Amateur Swedish Football League, was at some point in their starting lineup the presence of 80% of Bolivian players.
Presence is now a third generation of young Bolivians who take responsibility to preserve the cultural roots of their grandparents and parents. Many were born in these lands, being Swedish nationality or other parent. But there are those young people for friendship and sympathy our folklore dance, as hard as a Bolivian accustomed to.
Swedish institutions promoting youth support initiatives Bolivian organizations, because they allow a continuous and inclusive social development in its various activities.
Therefore most of the community bolivaian reference is the "meeting".
Among the young and novice parents run the joke "What is your son find?" Because in such events romance, drama and engagement of hearts are with all its nuances.
But the Bolivian organizations also found other means: nearby radios (meaning as community radio) limited in scope, to spread the news from Bolivia and Latin America, music and even make your links via telephone with radiosemisoras of La Paz, Oruro , and Cochabamba, and interviews with music personalities and politics. These are programs a few hours, but radios themselves, for example we Gothenburg Southern Broadcasting, Radio Bolivia in Stockholm, Radio Cordillera Norrköping and other identifying associations. It is a right that make use of civic, sporting, political and cultural Swedish and foreign in the country of which an estimated range of 125 nationalities.
Why not return to Bolivia
This is deficil to find an answer. The bulk of refugees arrived in Bolivia since 1980.
In 1983, many union leaders and politicians, returning to the country, but some leave their children in Sweden teens wives including a "meanwhile" to bide here the timely call their husbands. There was divorce was not abandoned, more Swedish biesestar security and political instability in Bolivia, not cut its ties with Sweden defitivamente. Militancy is a risky and thankless ideal, complains now.
Exile has taken many family a high price: dissolved marriages and children trapped in vicious circles in the big cities. This drama no more than the other side of Swedish society and the great threat-surely-is addiction to drugs.
Former Bolivian ambassador in Sweden Antonio Mariaca said on one occasion, the existence in Swedish prisons twenty Bolivians, mostly men involved with drug trafficking, rape, robbery and physical violence.
Fear ¿? Do you expect? Whatever the motivation is also of those compatriots who empeñarona in saving a "capitalcito" to undertake "something" in Bolivia and returned to start a new life. A few did well and others had failed to Sweden Buds.
Peo's not all bad, and good name here Leaño Borda Hector and Victor Montoya figures honoring the Bolivian community in its prestige Bolivian poetry and letters, respectively. The painters Hans Hoffmann, Julio Casanova, no less and perhaps the most famous in Scandinavia for their samples. We have another field to Inti Peredo, eminent neurosurgeon, son of the rebel of the same name. Surely it would be too long to list their compatriots who have been based on studies, a respected place in this society.
There are also those who cultivate anonymous poetry, novels and painting, about the spread their literary and artistic expressions on their own and others like her Callisaya Franscisco Quechua poet has written hundreds of poems are not published so far. The author of the poem is that mining "Comrade Christ" so often declaimed, and criticized the 60.
What to do now?
It is very difficult to make a commitment, but since 2005 Bolivian residents beyond promoting solidarity, singing, music and sports, organizes support groups called Bolivia, reflecting its sympathy with the Bolivian political process and government Evo Morales. That way guests have come up here some popular leaders and fighters MAS. Also within this society have mobilized to support the government in times of crisis, and have made three times its "symbolic elections." And surely it will continue working for the fraternization of the Bolivian community.
 
 
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