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Rebellion in the Veins - Political Struggle in Bolivia, 1952-1982 (Paperback)
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Rebellion in the Veins - Political Struggle in Bolivia, 1952-1982 (Paperback)
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"Bolivia is a country with a reputation," writes James Dunkerley.
"Not so long ago it was for Che Guevara, for whose death its
citizens are on occasions held to be collectively responsible. More
recently it has been for cocaine. But in general it is for
political disorder." Rebellion in the Veins demonstrates that
behind the succession of coups lies an exceptional and coherent
record of political struggle. The country's location at the heart
of Latin America has not, however, guaranteed it the attention it
deserves. Dunkerley here redresses the balance in a masterly survey
of Bolivian society since the early 1950s. The revolution of 1952
was, with the Cuban revolution, the most radical attempt in the
western hemisphere since the Second World War to break the cycle of
capitalist underdevelopment. It was channeled into a more familiar
pattern of repression and dictatorship only after bitter struggles,
and Dunkerley analyses the pressures that compromised it, providing
lucid accounts of the country's economy, political history and
class structure, as well as its relations with the United States.
The succession of military dictatorships from 1964 to 1982 are
described, but this period was by no means one of unrelieved
quietude. There was an extraordinarily vital popular resistance,
and the unusual sophistication of working-class politics forms a
stirring narrative. The tragic death of Che, after a doomed rural
guerrilla campaign in eastern Bolivia, had a profound effect on the
country's politics. The fate of his imitators, and the eventual
resurgence of more classical forms of mass struggle, has provided
valuable lessons for what Dunkerley predicts will be a second
Bolivian revolution. The story is carried through to the
restoration of parliamentary democracy in 1982, presided over by
Hernan Siles Zuazo, who first came to power in the revolution
thirty years earlier.
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