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Arturo Borda

Died in 1953

Arturo Borda was born in La Paz on 14 October 1883, the son of Colonel José Borda and Leonor Gozálvez. A self-taught painter, he began at sixteen and returned to the Illimani throughout his life. A labour activist and a pioneer of Bolivian anarchism, he founded the society Obreros del Porvenir and took part in the trade union movement. He also appears in the cast of a silent film of 1930. He lived to the end with his brother Héctor and died in La Paz in June 1953.

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