Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: Bolivia’s Lesson in Triumphalism
This is the English transcription of Bolivian historian Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui's intervention at the Women's Parliament in La Paz, Bolivia, on Tuesday November 12, 2019.
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