Bolivia was the site of the Potosi silver mine, one of the Spanish empire’s main sources of revenue. There were entire industries built around mining and processing the silver (which required mercury from the Santa Barbara mine in Huancavelica, Peru), transportation, the provision of labour, food, clothes etc.
Juan Vicente, a cobbler born in Campo Maior, on the Portuguese border with Spain, was arrested by the Lima tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in 1601, and later reconciled for judaism. In 1607 the Portuguese Inquisition arrested the 53 year old Francisco Álvares, resident in Potosi (‘Potozim’), in Peru, but born in Castelo de Vide on the border with Spain. He was the son of Grácia de Luna and Grácia de Luna. Campo Maior and Castelo de Vide are about 60km apart.