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Domitila Barrios de Chungara (Bolivia)

Note: The following article was written during the lifetime of the prize winner. Domitila Barrios died on March 13, 2012 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Domitila Barrios de Chungara was born in 1937 in Potosi, Bolivia. She was a Bolivian labor leader and feminist. Her political engagement began when she joined the Comite de de Casa de la mina Siglo XX. It was an organization comprised of the wives of the mining committees of the twentieth century. The miner women had established their own organization in order to defend themselves and their rights. They wanted to protect their families against the oppression of the military government.

Domitila Barrios de Chungara quickly became the voice of the organization, as well as that of the Bolivian workers’ movement. She became a speaker in congress during the international year of women in Mexico in 1975 and gained international attention. During the military dictatorship, she was arrested and personally became a witness to violence and human rights violations. The Bolivian miner women advocated the

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Domitila Barrios De Chungara

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, the daughter of a mine worker, was born in 1937, and lived most of her life in a tin mining camp in the Bolivian highlands. She was rendered motherless at the age of 10, and as a result Domitila was forced to leave primary school to care for her four younger sisters. Nonetheless, she graduated from the school of life and the Bolivian trade union movement, as an active participant in the “Housewives Committee” of the Siglo XX-Catavi tin mine trade union movement, from 1963 onward. In 1975 Domitila was invited to testify at the first United Nations Conference on Women, Development and Peace, and there, she met Moema Viezzer, who helped her publish her life story in the form of this book. After a 2-year exile in Sweden during Garcia Meza's government, Domitila and her husband returned to Bolivia, but shortly thereafter, alongside 30,000 others, her husband was laid off from his mining job. Domitila was thence forced to move from her native land, to the city of Cochabamba, where she died in 2013. She lives on through Let

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Domitila Barrios de Chungara was born on May 7th 1937 in Potosí. She was the daughter of a miner and married a miner. Her mother died when she was young so she grew up raising her five younger sisters. Later, she had seven children. Using her experience with poor conditions for miners, she stepped up and became leader of the Housewives’ Committee in the 1960s. They sought to improve the working conditions for their husbands and their families, along with resolving/improving many other issues. She died on March 13, 2012 at the age of 74. There was a three day mourning for her.

Domitila survived the 1967 San Juan massacre. The massacre had taken place at a tin mine in Bolivia called Siglo XX. While the people were having fun festivities the army came in, dressed as civilians, and opened fire on hundreds and hundreds of people. This inclu

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