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Domitila Barrios de Chungara

Born

in Pulacayo, Bolivia

May 07, 1937

Died

March 13, 2012

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Domitila Barrios de Chungara was long-time social activist, union leader, feminist, revolutionary, and national heroine. She is best known as the miner’s wife who led a hunger strike in 1978 that brought down the dictatorship of General Hugo Bánzer, paving the way for the return of Bolivian democracy.

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Let Me Speak
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Domitila Barrios de Chungara,

Moema Viezzer,

Victoria Ortiz (Translator)

4.24 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 1977 — 19 editions

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“...it was the very government and the way they treated us that started us on that road. For example, in my case, when they beat me in the DIC cells for being a “communist” and an “extremist” and all that, they awoke a great curiosity in me: “What is communism? What is socialism?” Every day they beat me over the head with that. And I began to ask myself: “What’s a socialist country? How are problems solved there? How do people live there? Are the miners massacred there?” And then I began to analyze: “What have I done? What do I want? What do I think? Why am I here? I only asked for justice for the people, I only asked for education to be better, I asked that there be no more massacres like the terrible San Juan massacre. Is that socialism? Is that communism?”
― Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Let Me Speak

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