Bolivia
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Coroma Textiles
Pre- and post-Conquest Aymara sacred textiles removed from the village of Coroma in the 1970s and 1980s in violation of Bolivian law.
![Map of Bolivia: Map of Bolivia from the CIA World Factbook a huaco found by a huaquero in peru](https://traffickingculture.org/app/uploads/2012/08/a-huaco-found-by-a-huaquero-in-peru-150x150.jpg)
Huaquero
A huaquero is a person who clandestinely excavates at archaeological sites for the purpose of obtaining marketable antiquities; a looter.
![Map of Bolivia: Map of Bolivia from the CIA World Factbook San Andres de Machaca Paintings](https://traffickingculture.org/app/uploads/2015/03/San-Andres-de-Machaca-Paintings-150x150.jpg)
San Andrés de Machaca Church Looting
This remote Bolivian church has been robbed on several occasions; two paintings stolen from it were recovered in London in 2011.
![Map of Bolivia: Map of Bolivia from the CIA World Factbook David Swetnam Holds a Peanut Bead from Sipan in a London Hotel Room (Photo from US Customs via Kirkpatrick 1992)](https://traffickingculture.org/app/uploads/2012/08/David-Swetnam-Holds-a-Peanut-Bead-from-Sipan-in-a-London-Hotel-Room-Photo-from-US-Customs-via-Kirkpatrick-1992-150x150.jpg)
Swetnam, Drew, Kelly Smuggling Ring of Objects from Sipán
The following is one particularly well documented incidence of the trafficking of artefacts from Sipan.
Related Publications
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Yates, D. (2019), ‘Cultural Heritage Offences in Latin America: Textile Traffickers, Mummy Mailers, Silver Smugglers, and Virgin Vandals’, in S. Hufnagel and D. Chappell (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime. London: Routledge, 483–501.
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Yates, D. (2020), ‘”Community Justice,” Ancestral Rights, and Lynching in Rural Bolivia’, Race and Justice 10(1): 3–19.
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Yates, D. (2015), ‘Reality and Practicality: Challenges to Effective Cultural Property Policy on the Ground in Latin America’, International Journal of Cultural Property 22 (2–3): 337–356.
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Yates, D. (2014) ‘Church Theft, Insecurity, and Community Justice: The Reality of Source-End Regulation of the Market for Illicit Bolivian Cultural Objects’, European Journal on Criminal Policy Research, DOI 10.1007/s10610-014-9232-z
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Yates, D. (2012), ‘Archaeological Practice and Political Change: Transitions and Transformations in the Use of the Past in Nationalist, Neoliberal and Indigenous Bolivia’, PhD Dissertation, University of Cambridge.
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Yates, D. (2011), ‘Archaeology and Autonomies: The Legal Framework of Heritage Management in a New Bolivia’ International Journal of Cultural Property 18(30): 291–307.
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