Bolivians celebrate their love of the classic VW Beetle
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June 24, 2023
By Gina Baldivieso
La Paz, Jun 24 (EFE).- Bolivian devotees of the classic Volkswagen Beetles showed off their vehicles here Saturday in a belated observance of Worldwide VW Beetle Day.
Launched in 1995 by Alexander Gromow, co-founder of the Brazilian magazine Fusca Clube Brazil, the day commemorates the June 22, 1934, signing of a contract between the government of Adolf Hitler and engineer Ferdinand Porsche for the development of an economical “people’s car,” or Volkswagen.
This year, because June 22 fell in the middle of the week, Bolivia’s various Beetle-owners clubs decided to observe the occasion on Saturday, Haciendo Huellas (Making Tracks) club president Jose Luis Escalante told EFE.
Members of a half-dozen clubs in La Paz and neighboring El Alto took part in the parade of “Petas,” as the cars are known in Bolivia for their supposed resemblance to a local species of river tortoise.
The procession of green, yellow, red, white, and blue Beetles set out in the morning from Montes Avenue in the heart of Old La Paz and made its way across the city’s main throughfares.
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