Statement in support of the uprising of the Bolivian people: BOLIVIA, WE SEE YOU

From the CLACSO Working Group on Feminisms, Resistance and Emancipation We declare our support for the uprising of the Bolivian people.

Today, the phrase “They have not defeated us,” so often uttered by our recently deceased comrade, Taty Almeida, president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and a leading figure in the fight against impunity, deeply moves us because it is a call to resistance and hope. We recognize with emotion this phrase embodied in the organizational strength of the people, peasants, workers, and Indigenous communities that Bolivia demonstrates, a country that has been engaged for over a month in a sustained struggle against the oppressive policies of the international right wing.

What began as an indigenous and peasant march in the eastern region of the country, which achieved the repeal of Law 1720—a law that jeopardized their lands by favoring large banking and agribusiness interests—transformed into a popular, indigenous, and peasant uprising against the government of Rodrigo Paz Delgado and his privatization, extractivist policies and colonial subservience to the United States. The Bolivian people's struggle is not only against a ruler, but against a right-wing economic model that intends for the most vulnerable to pay for the crisis while the privileged continue to accumulate and concentrate capital; against a
This political regime is also dismantling the Plurinational State, criminalizing protest, and putting the interests of the United States above the country; and it is also an uprising of dignity against attempts to restore and legitimize racist expressions that ignore and deny the value of indigenous and peasant life.

The government of Rodrigo Paz has responded by discrediting and spreading disinformation about this struggle through the mainstream media, inciting racist hatred, and giving free rein to the brutal use of state force against those mobilized. It has also decreed a State of Emergency that limits constitutional guarantees, an act we condemn. Paz's actions are supported by the invading governments of the United States and Israel, responsible for multiple genocides. But Bolivia will not surrender; Bolivia has already won, and we see it.

We see and support Bolivia's exemplary struggle from the various countries we inhabit, which are also trying to resist the onslaught of the right wing and its cruel policies. We see Bolivia with the conviction that popular, peasant, indigenous, worker, and above all, women's organization embodies a fundamental hope for achieving the emancipated societies we dream of. We see Bolivia with the certainty that "they have not defeated us."

June 20th, 2026
CLACSO Working Group on Feminisms, Resistance and Emancipation

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