Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines

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First published in English in 1978, this classic book accommodates the testimony of Domitila Barrios de Chungara, the wife of a Bolivian tin miner. Blending firsthand accounts with astute political analysis, Domitila describes the hardships endured by Bolivia’s vast working class and her own efforts at organizing Ladies within the mining community. The result’s a gripping narrative of sophistication struggle and repression, the most important social document that illuminates the truth of capitalist exploitation in 1970s Bolivia. Domitila Barrios de Chungara was once born in 1937 within the Siglo XX mining the city in Bolivia. She was politically active within the 1960s and, in 1975, participated within the UN International Ladies’s Year Tribunal in Mexico. In 2005 she was once nominated alongside 999 other “Peace Ladies” for a collective Nobel Peace Prize.
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