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"Today Bolivians are more united than ever."
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Martha Yujra Apaza is a Bolivian politician and trade unionist who served as minister of cultures and tourism from 2019 to 2020 A prominent trade union leader in El Alto, Yujra was the only indigenous member of the Jeanine Ánez Cabinet and was the final official to head the Ministry of Cultures and Tourism; the institution was abolished during her term During her tenure, Yujra's office primarily
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"It is womens time. We are the ones who take the reins of this country."
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"...he who does nothing fears nothing. I have no reason to hide, why hide?"
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"In the mine, our parents told us women: "You have to learn to cook because you have to have a husband. You dont have to study, you dont have to give your opinion". I have lived those times, and I have rebelled."
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"Those days I was persecuted and in hiding. The masistas wanted to hang me;... my children were scattered. Weeks before, we were at the barricades, rain or shine,... praying in El Alto;... we could no longer resist so much abuse, the mockery of the sovereign vote of the people... That is why we have begun to organize ourselves ... against that regime, to return democracy to our children..."
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"[I want to remembered] as an Aymara woman, from El Alto, and humble. But a leader should never say "me, me, me", but rather the bases have to decide who to remember and who to forget."
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