State crisis and popular power

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 37, 2006, Pages 73-85

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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 On April 8, Aguas del Tunari's contract on the water supply was revoked by the Banzer government.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 mediatión democrática: Actión Democrática Nacionalista, degree thesis in sociology, La Paz 2000.
6. Luis Tapia, La conditión 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 19805 pushed through the liberal reforms of the Washington Consensus.
13. Actión Democrática Nacionalista: party founded in 1979 by the dictator Hugo Banzer, which he led in subsequent elections, gaining the presidency from 1997-2001.