Bolivia After the Referendum
Against The Current vol. 137
Webber, Jeffery R.
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1941
Date Written: 2008-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2008
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13458
The month following Bolivia's recall referendum on August 10, 2008 tragically confirmed the class polarization of that country. The right-wing autonomists of the Santa Cruz, Pando, Beni, Tarija and Sucre departments (states or provinces) escalated their destabilization campaign against the Morales government, while the latter singularly failed to assert its rightful democratic control over all Bolivian territory. A small, racist and virulently right-wing minority has been able to shut down large parts of the country and spill indigenous peasant blood with impunity.
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