[A-List] Garcia Linera: State Crisis and Popular Power

["James Daly" <james.irldaly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Garcia Linera: State Crisis and Popular Power

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[1] Central Obrera Boliviana: organization of workers from large
enterprises in different branches of production. In the wake of labour
flexibilization, closures of businesses and privatizations implemented
since 1985, its social base has been reduced to teachers, public
hospital employees, university students and some urban guilds.

[2] [In 2000, a rate hike imposed on the department of Cochabamba’s
newly privatized water supply led to massive protests, with strikes
and blockades shutting down the city. On April 4, some 100,000
strikers and protesters broke through the military cordon surrounding
the city’s central square and held a mass open-air assembly. On April
8, Aguas del Tunari’s contract on the water supply was revoked by the
Banzer government. The same months saw the mobilization of cocaleros
and peasant colonizers against the threat of coca eradication, with
indigenous people’s organizations playing a leading role in mounting
road blockades that threatened to cut food supplies to La Paz. In June
2001 cocaleros in the Yungas valleys succeeded in driving out the
joint us–Bolivian eradication force. Two months later, Banzer ceded
the presidency to his deputy, Quiroga—nlr.]

[3] [The state-owned Brazilian company Petrobras is a major purchaser
of Bolivian natural gas, along with the Spanish Repsol—nlr.]

[4] José Valenzuela, ¿Qué es un patrón de acumulación?, Mexico City
1990.

[5] P. Chaves, Los límites estructurales de los partidos de poder como
estructuras de mediación democrática: Acción Democrática Nacionalista,
degree thesis in sociology, La Paz 2000.

[6] Luis Tapia, La condición multisocietal: multiculturalidad,
pluralismo, modernidad, La Paz 2002.

[7] [Protests at the Sánchez de Lozada government’s scheme to export
gas reserves through Chile (a national enemy since it had robbed
Bolivia of access to the sea in the 1879–83 War of the Pacific),
rather than process them domestically, escalated into a full-scale
insurrection in La Paz and El Alto in October 2003, ending in the
ouster of the president—nlr.]

[8] Movimiento al Socialismo: political organization led by the
indigenous peasant leader Evo Morales. Rather than a party, it is an
electoral coalition of several urban and rural social movements.
csutcb: organization of indigenous and peasant communities founded in
1979, led by Felipe Quispe.

[9] Charles Tilly, European Revolutions, 1492–1992, Oxford 1993.

[10] Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective
Action and Politics, Cambridge 1994.

[11] Anthony Oberschall, Social Movements: Ideologies, Interests and
Identities, New Brunswick 1993.

[12] Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario: nationalist party that
led the popular revolution of 1952 and in the 1980s pushed through the
liberal reforms of the Washington Consensus.

[13] Acción Democrática Nacionalista: party founded in 1979 by the
dictator Hugo Banzer, which he led in subsequent elections, gaining
the presidency from 1997–2001.

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