Manitoba Colony is an ultraconservative Mennonite community in the Santa Cruz Department or eastern lowlands of Bolivia.
[1][2][3] Conservative plain dress Old Colony Mennonites from Mexico and Canada began moving to Bolivia in the 1960s.
The colony elders, deciding that the case was too difficult to handle themselves, called local police to take the perpetrators into custody in 2011.
[12][13] A fictional version of Manitoba Colony appears in Miriam Toews's 2018 novel, Women Talking.
The novel, which Toews describes as a "reaction through fiction," imagines a group of colony women gathering secretly to discuss the nighttime attacks they have suffered, and to decide on a course of action.