El Alto: graphic novel depicts Bolivia city’s future as Indigenous and robotic

Altopia imagines the bustling working-class city that overlooks neighbouring La Paz in 2053 - with coca-chewing cyborgs and minibuses with legs

Travellers flying into the Bolivian capital of La Paz land in El Alto: a working-class, Indigenous city of countless terracotta houses. Most visitors pay it little attention as the taxi whisks them down to La Paz.

But this one-time satellite city has now outgrown the political capital - and many see it as a symbol of the country's future.