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Technologies of distribution, Comteco and the fight for transparency

For 88 days the senior shareholders of the telecom cooperative Comteco hold a vigil for elections, audits and answers. TikTok becomes a living archive of the protest.

  • A crowd outside a building at night, under the words 80 days in vigil Comteco. Beside it, three illustrations of older people in a protest.
  • Statistics of 1.1 million views beside a grid of video thumbnails of people speaking. A yellow box reads: In just 30 days, 1.1 million people watched our stories.

Technologies of distribution, Bolivia opening a new political chapter, and the urgent fight for transparency in our telecom cooperative Comteco.

While there’s growing hype around Starlink entering the country, Bolivia still doesn’t have a data protection law, digital rights remain undefined, and our existing infrastructure lacks transparency. Satellite internet isn’t a substitute for governance, accountability, or sovereignty.

For 88 days, senior citizens, the OG (original) shareholders who built this cooperative, have been holding vigil, demanding elections, audits, and answers. Much of the media remains silent, so I’ve been using TikTok as a counterbalance, turning citizen journalism into a living archive of this moment.

Bolivia is shifting.
Technology is shifting.
And we must build systems; political, digital, and narrative, that honour truth, memory, and the communities that carry them.

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