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Bolivia: “We want a democracy of participation”

Categories: Latin America, Bolivia, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Protest

Peter Lackowski from Upside Down World [1] interviewed Oscar Olivera, “an activist, thinker, and writer based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He was a leader during the uprising in 2000 in Cochabamba in which the people of the city threw out Bechtel, the multinational corporation that had privatized all the water in the city – even the rain that people collected.”