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

Rooftop cityscape, El Alto, Bolivia. Photograph: Aizar Raldes/AFP/Getty Images

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.