Turon takes root in Bolivia
The Bolivian Turon Federation, led by President César Castro Claure, joined the International Turon Federation in 2026 and became the first member federation in South America.
Regular training has since been established at the federation's own hall in El Alto, where children's groups work in full protective equipment. The wall behind the mat carries the federation crest alongside the ITF emblem.
In parallel the federation signed an institutional cooperation agreement with the Universidad Pública de El Alto, under which Turon is being developed as a self-defence discipline within the university's physical education and sport programme. Close to a hundred students attended the presentation event held at the university.
Bolivia is now one of five Spanish-speaking member federations of the ITF, alongside Peru, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay — a group that has made Spanish one of the four working languages of the Federation.