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Lima, Oct 15 (EFE).- The Peruvian capital bore witness Friday to a march by hundreds of indigenous women from a dozen Latin American countries to demand recognition of their contributions to society on the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women."We are revolutionary women, we are women of the countryside, of struggle, and we need the great capitalists to understand that we, too, have rights that they have to respect," Angelica Ponce, director of the Confederation of Women of Intercultural Communities of Bolivia, told Efe.She made the trip to Lima for the Second Summit of Indigenous Women of Abya Yala (Latin America), which comes nearly five months after the first summit, held in Bolivia. (Camera: MIKHAIL HUACÁN).SHOT LIST: INDIEGENOUS WOMEN MARCH TO DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS IN LIMA, PERU.

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