Set Your Clocks Forward: Bolivia’s President Says That It’s the Year 5524

[Zorro]

Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed Tuesday that the South American country ditch the Gregorian calendar and return to the calender that its indigenous ancestors used.

During the Aymara New Year ceremony — which marks the winter solstice and is considered the start of the new year by many indigenous people — Morales said it was important to reclaim the country’s “ancestral calendar” in a bid to distance the nation from its colonial past, reports Latin American television network TeleSur.

According to the indigenous calendar, it is the year 5524 in Bolivia.

Morales is Bolivia’s first indigenous leader and declared June 21 a national holiday in 2010. Since assuming office in 2005, he has focused on promoting an inclusive national identity for Bolivia — one of Latin America’s most ethnically diverse countries — and introducing social reforms prioritizing indigenous rights.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bolivia-president-wants-country-indigenous-091720731.html

[COLGATE4]

1. Undoubtedly a very important issue. Glad to see that

he's focusing on the real problems Bolivia has.

[DetlefK]

2. North Korea declared it's own time-zone in 2015. And nobody cared.

[bemildred]

3. Well it's just an arbitrary number anyway. nt

[Judi Lynn]

4. Have always had everything but respect for anyone who makes a point of mocking indigenous people.n/t