When the NI last asked ‘Where are they now?’, in October 1989, we tracked down Domitila, who had originally been featured a decade before. She had risen to prominence during the time of military dictatorship as leader of the Housewives’ Committee of one of Bolivia’s most militant mining communities, Siglo XX, and for a brief while had won international notice following the publication of her book Let Me Speak.
By 1989 Siglo XX had become a ghost town – ravaged by collapsing tin prices on the world market. Like many of her neighbours, Domitila had moved with her children to Cochabamba. She seemed bitter and somewhat diminished, not then engaged in any political activity.
