Women Fight Superstition, Machismo in Mining Cooperatives

First Perspective reports that women belonging to mining cooperatives in Bolivia are striving for the right to mine seams of tin and silver.

The market news is quoted as saying,

Growing international demand for metals and soaring prices for the tin, silver and gold that are abundant in Bolivia have encouraged thousands of mainly indigenous peasant farmers and people from outside the altiplano region to go down the mines, organised in cooperatives.

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