Everything Is Up for Discussion: A 40th Anniversary Conversation With Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

S ILVIA RIVERA CUSICANQUI IS A BOLIVIAN sociologist, activist, and public intellectual who teaches at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz and advises President Evo Morales’s government on coca issues. She cofounded the Workshop on Andean Oral History and has taught throughout the Americas, most recently at the University of Pittsburgh. Her 1982 book, Oppressed but Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1910–1980, is considered a classic in Bolivian studies. On the occasion of NACLA’s 40th anniversary, NACLA contributor Linda Farthing spoke with Rivera Cusicanqui about contemporary Bolivia.