Portrait of Domitila Barrios de Chungara

People/labour leader, writer

Domitila Barrios de Chungara

Domitila Barrios de Chungara (1937–2012), labour leader, writer, from Bolivia.

The downfall

Imprisoned and tortured in 1967 for opposing the San Juan massacre.1,2,3

Legacy

General secretary of the Housewives Committee of the Twentieth Century, which pressed for better conditions for miners. With four other women she organised a 1977 to 1978 hunger strike of 4,000 people. Her testimony Let Me Speak! appeared in English in 1978.1,2,3

Story cards

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Where next

Places

Worked atOruroTortured in 1967, she told her story in Let Me Speak!1

Sources

  1. Barrios de Chungara, Domitila (1937-) Encyclopedia.com (reprinting a publisher's reference work)
  2. Wikidata item Q4165879
  3. File pages and licence metadata for portraits (via the Commons imageinfo/extmetadata API) Wikimedia Commons

Pictures on this page: Domitila Barrios de Chungara Portrait.jpg, Fduriez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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