Social Movements
Up one level
Social movements have been at the forefront of forging a new vision of Bolivia based on justice and environmental sustainability
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Social Movements and Progressive Governments: The Current Veins of Latin America
- Bolivia has Evo Morales. Mexico has the Zapatista movement. Argentina is Kirchner’s. Where do social movements stop when facing progressiveness that restores power? Are these governments the triumph, or the downfall of these movements? Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, a Mexican with vast experience in Bolivia, visited Buenos Aires to talk about these themes with local movements and with LaVaca.org, offering a deep look to look at the continent in its own mirror.
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The chequered rainbow
- Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson in the New Left Review say that Bolivia's social protests need to be understood in the context of the country’s distinctive insurrectionary traditions of the past 200 years, which could also prevent a durable political front for change in coming years.