Bolivia leapt onto the front pages of the news in October 2003,
when the 'Gas Wars' protests caused the ousting of Bolivia's
President, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. In the Gas Wars the
indigenous inhabitants, trade unions, and other civil society
groups came together to protest the sale of Bolivian natural gas to
the United States through a pipeline leading to Chile. In the
unrest protestors were killed, and calls for the President to
resign grew ever louder. Bolivia has a long history of social
protest. In Cochabamba in 2000, the Water Wars saw nearly 10,000
people take to the streets against the privatisation of water. The
Bolivian peoples' strong stance against foreign interests and the
sale of their natural resources has been triggered by US pressure;
first in the 'war on drugs' - the fumigation of 'illegal' coca
crops - and pressure waged on a wider front of IMF structural
adjustments, and the neo-liberal regime. In Patterns of Protest,
UK-based Andean expert John Crabtree explains the antecedents of a
poor country's struggle against its most powerful neighbours, and
the predatory interests of global capitalism. In a strongly
indigenous nation, explains the influence of Quechua and Aymara
identity and organising in Bolivian politics, and analyses the
unique way that Boliva has united disparate populations - the urban
working class and the rural indigenous people - to demand that
Bolivian natural resources benefit Bolivians first.
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