FEJUVE
The Federation of Neighborhood Councils-El Alto (Spanish: Federación de Juntas Vecinales de El Alto, FEJUVE) is a federalist mode of political organization of over 600 neighborhood councils that provide public services, construction and jobs to citizens of El Alto, Bolivia.
Federación de Juntas Vecinales de El Alto | |
| Abbreviation | FEJUVE |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1979 |
| Type | Federation of neighborhood councils |
| Purpose | Provision of universal basic services |
| Location | |
| Methods | Participatory democracy |
Membership (2008) | c. 114,000 |
Official languages | Spanish Aymara Quechua |
El Alto's neighborhood councils and its self-managed informal economy are based on a fusion of the traditional organization of the indigenous Aymara and Quechua people, as well as the syndicalism brought by the radical miners that settled in the city during the 1980s.
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