Women and the Constituent Assembly

Sorry for the dark pic but it will give you an idea of the diversity of women attending the Constituent Assembly. The woman in the front right has her baby in an allyu. This is how all the indigenous women carry their babies and everything else. The ones they use now are factory made but you can buy beautiful hand weaved allyus everywhere.

This was the first women´s event I´ve been to and it was wonderful. Mostly it was a cultural evening to share the different songs and dances from across Bolivia. It was really very moving. There were a couple of speeches and the issues seem to be representation of women and violence against women. I had a peak into a pre meeting of elected Assembly members and was struck by the small number of women. Even though the President of the Assembly is a woman, there couldn´t be more than 20 percent women if that. But women are organizing and Evo mentions women´s equality in every speech and it usually gets a big applause so here´s hoping.