Tag: strikes

Housewives Against Dictatorship: The Bolivian Hunger Strike of 1978

On December 28, 1977 four women and fourteen children arrived at the offices of Archbishop Nelson Manrique in La Paz, Bolivia and began a hunger strike in the highest capital city in the world. Aurora de Lora, Nely de Paniagua, AngĂ©lica de Flores, and Luzmila de Pimentel had travelled two hundred miles from the mining… Read more →