On Their Own Terms: How Cocalera Organizing Expanded Indigenous Women’s Rights in Bolivia
Linda Farthing,
Thomas Grisaffi
Abstract:A key element in the historically unprecedented advances in indigenous women’s political representation under Bolivia’s Evo Morales’s administration (2006–2019) was the influence that women coca growers played in the rural women’s indigenous organization known as the Bartolinas. Driven in no small measure by their resistance to the US-financed War on Drugs in the Chapare region, the cocaleras became both Bolivia’s strongest indigenous women’s organization and its most dedicated advocates for indigenous women’s… Show more
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