Nicolasa Machaca
Nicolasa Machaca Alejandro (born 1952) is a Bolivian union leader and health care worker.

A child of indigenous Quechua farmworkers, Machaca learned to read and became a literacy advocate. She coordinated community aid efforts and worked to empower women through forming mothers' clubs. In 1980, she was involved in the founding of the Bartolina Sisa Confederation, the primary union organization of peasant women in Bolivia. Later that year, she was imprisoned and tortured for her social activism, and she was forced to flee the country. After a stay in Cuba, she returned to Bolivia and studied to become a paramedic. 

In 2005, she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize as part of PeaceWomen Across the Globe's initiative to nominate a group of 1,000 women for that year's honor.
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