Bartolina Sisa: Immortal War that lives in the struggles of the Peoples (+seeding)

On September 5, 1782, the courageous Bolivian warrior Bartolina Sisa was assassinated, who actively fought against the Spanish colonists and led the Aymara Army in the battles that sought to free her people from conquest.

She was taken naked to the streets of Chuquiago after being arrested and tortured. She was tied to the tail of a horse with a rope around her neck and a crown of thorns - just as they did with her husband a year earlier - and they cut out her tongue to silence her screams. It was dismembered and its parts were sent to different places to intimidate the indigenous people.

He was born on August 24, 1753. He was a merchant in the Aimara community like his parents, and he was responsible for exchanging the necessary products so that everyone had equal access to livestock and crops. During his travels, he learned about the cruelty of the Spanish people to his people and he developed a deep political and national conscience, giving rise to the strong conviction of freeing his people from that destiny. Under this premise, he meets the leader Aimara Tupak Katari (Julián Apaza) -a young traveler and merchant of cloth and coca- with whom he shares the same sentiment: a deep-rooted aversion to Spanish cruelties and to its colonial regime.

She later married Katari, and joined the Aymara Liberation Army -at the age of 25- led by her husband. This army began its first fighting actions in February 1781, after carefully organizing and coordinating - together with the Quechua group led by Tupak Amaru - all the steps to follow for the confrontation with the Spanish.

On May 21 of the same year, Bartolina took over the leadership of the army while Katari was leaving to carry out another mission; she was responsible for guarding the siege that the Aimara and the Quechua built in defense of their people in the city of Chuquiago (La Paz), however, her struggle was immortalized and since 1983 it has been celebrated in Bolivia on September 5 as the International Day of Indigenous Women.

Mazo News Team