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portada Echoes of Cochabamba: Legacies of the Water Wars in Bolivia
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781945335297

Echoes of Cochabamba: Legacies of the Water Wars in Bolivia

Oscar Olivera (Author) · Common Notions · Paperback

Echoes of Cochabamba: Legacies of the Water Wars in Bolivia - Oscar Olivera

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Synopsis "Echoes of Cochabamba: Legacies of the Water Wars in Bolivia"

Lessons from the greatest people's victory against corporate neoliberal capture in Latin America.Water is life! From the frontlines of the greatest popular rebellion against the privatization of water comes the triumphant grassroots story of ordinary people in Cochabamba, Bolivia who became water warriors. As Echoes of Cochabamba shows in vivid detail, the 2001 "water wars" was an explosion of democracy and human rights regained by the masses, which won popular control of water supply and defied all odds by driving out the transnational corporation that had stolen their water in the first place.Oscar Olivera, a trade union machinist who helped shape and lead a movement that brought thousands of ordinary people to the streets, powerfully conveys the perspective of a committed participant in a victorious and inspirational rebellion.Olivera relates the selling of the city's water supply to Aguas del Tunari--a subsidiary of US-based Bechtel--the subsequent astronomical rise in water prices, and the refusal of poverty-strapped Bolivians to pay them. Olivera brings us to the front lines of a movement, chronicling how the people organized an opposition and the dramatic struggles that eventually defeated the privatizers.With hard-won political savvy, Olivera reflects on major themes that emerged from the war over water: the fear and isolation that Cochabambinos faced with a spirit of solidarity and mutual aid; the challenges of democratically administering the city's water supply; and the impact of the water wars on subsequent resistance.Twenty-five years later, Cochabamba teaches us that the real issue is not the capture of state power, but the creation of new pathways from the grassroots up.

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