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	Cochabamba - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cochabamba
		Capital of Cercado province and Cochabamba department, central Bolivia, situated on the River Rocha, at an altitude of 2,550 m/8,370 ft on the slopes of the eastern Cordillera, 230 km/144 mi southeast of La Paz; population (2001 est) 558,500.
		The Cochabamba valley is a rich agricultural region producing grain, beef, fruit, and timber for the towns of the Altiplano Plateau.
		Cochabamba was founded in 1574 by the Spanish adventurer Sebastián Barba de Padilla.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Cochabamba (199 words)

	Cochabamba protests of 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In mid-January, Cochabamba residents shut down their city for four straight days with a general strike led by a new alliance of labor, human rights and community leaders.
		IWL officials claimed that the protests were riots sponsored by cocaine producers against a crackdown on coca production.
		Segerfeldt, "the poor of Cochabamba are still paying 10 times as much for their water as the rich, connected households and continue to indirectly subsidize water consumption of more well-to-do sectors of the community.
	www.io.com /~xiombarg/cgi-bin/nph-colorblind.cgi/000100A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Riots_of_2000 (779 words)

	Riot
		Riots or unlawful assemblies occur when crowds[?] of people have gathered and are committing crimes or acts of violence.
		To control riots often non-lethal weapons are used, such as water cannons[?], rubber bullets, flexible baton rounds and riot control agent.
		Deadly force is used in some repressive countries to stop riots, particularly if martial law is declared or in a country at war.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Riot.html (181 words)

	Cochabamba protests of 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Cochabamba protests of 2000 were a series of protests that place in Cochabamba Bolivia between January and April 2000 because of the privatization of the municipal water supply.
		In mid-January Cochabamba residents shut down their for four straight days with a general strike led by a new alliance of labor human rights and community leaders.
		The Cochabamba protests were seen as the manifestation of the growing rejection of the neo-liberal economic model promoted in the 1980s and 1990s by the US government in Latin America and other parts of the world.
	www.freeglossary.com /Cochabamba_Riots_of_2000 (987 words)

	Timeline 2000 March-April
		2000 Apr 12, Attorney General Janet Reno met in Miami with the US relatives of Elian Gonzalez, after which she ordered them to bring the six-year-old boy to an airport the next day so he could be taken to a reunion with his father in Washington.
		2000 Apr 17, In Spokane, Wa., Robert L. Yates Jr., a National Guardsman and the father of 5, was arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old prostitute and suspected in the murder of as many as 17 other slayings in Washington state.
		2000 Apr 30, The Clinton administration defended their decision to classify AIDS as a threat to national security as a means to garner attention and funding to fight the disease worldwide.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/2000_B.HTML (13110 words)

	States of Unrest: Resistance to IMF Policies in Poor Countries - Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy
		April-May 2000 A peaceful demonstration calling for debt relief and an end to IMF conditions ends in violence and arrests of church leaders; 63 protesters, including 13 nuns and 2 priests, are arrested at a debt cancellation march in Nairobi.
		Riot police arrive at the end of the march and "broke up the protest with clubs and tear gas, violently hauling marchers into a waiting vehicle".
		February 9, 2000 Zambia's President, Frederick Chiluba, blames the IMF for the economic problems of his country, stating that reforms which were meant to bring prosperity to the country have only brought unemployment and a rise in poverty levels.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/bwi-wto/imf/2000/protest.htm (8860 words)

	Water privatization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Usually campaigns involve demonstrations and political means; sometimes they may become violent (eg Cochabamba Riots of 2000 in Bolivia).
		Opposition is usually strongest to water privatization - as well as Cochabamba (2000), recent examples include Ghana and Uruguay (2004).
		In the latter case a civil-society-initiated referendum banning water privatization was passed in October 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Water_privatization (995 words)

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		The riots ended in April this year, leaving one person dead, two blinded and several injured, only after the Bolivian government revoked the concession to the foreign-owned consortium Aguas del Tunari.
		The actors involved in the Cochabamba concession and the Misicuni Project are not limited to the Bolivian government and the owners of Aguas del Tunari.
		Whatever organisational form will be chosen in Cochabamba, they should include the following principles: Social priorities must be guaranteed through a democratic, participatory process and a transparent deal; Local control of water management and operation must be assured; Achievement of efficiency targets must not lead to excess costs to water users and particularly the poor.
	www.psiru.org /reports/Cochabamba.doc (2082 words)

	List of riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deadliest riots in world history, with an estimated 30,000 killed in the Hippodrome.
		Student riot leads to closing of university for 2 years.
		1992 - Bombay Riots - Riots in the Indian City of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) after the demolition of Babri Masjid, Ayodhya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_riots (2325 words)

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	Cochabamba protests of 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The latter was sold to a private company, International Waters Limited (IWL) of London (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bechtel Corporation; it operated locally as Aguas de Tunari), at the insistence of the World Bank.
		According to local press reports, the foreign investors aquired in the city water system, in a sale in which they were the only bidder, for less than US$20,000 of up-front capital for a water system worth millions of dollars.
		The Cochabamba protests were seen as the first manifestation of the growing rejection of the neo-liberal economic model promoted in the 1980s and 1990s by the US government in Latin America and other parts of the world.
	www.explainthat.info /co/cochabamba-protests-of-2000.html (682 words)

	CNN.com - World - 3 killed in clash of police, protesters in Bolivia - April 9, 2000
		The demonstrations began in Cochabamba, about 350 miles (560 kilometers) east of La Paz, over a government plan to hike water rates by 20 percent, and soon spread to La Paz, San Joaquin and other regions.
		The government claims the rate increase is needed to fund a extension of a new water plant in Cochabamba, which has suffered recurrent water shortages.
		Military police in riot gear used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up crowds of demonstrators in Cochabamba, many of whom hurled rocks and gasoline bombs.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/04/09/bolivia.unrest/index.html (682 words)

	Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia
		This exact scenario occurred during April 2000 in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
		Featuring perspectives from water activist and prominent labor leader Oscar Olivera, “Cochabamba” is a four-part work covering various aspects of The Water War, and its resulting social and political outcomes.
		Moreover, control of other water sources in Cochabamba was seized under a law stipulating that only the contracted company could distribute water.
	www.gnn.tv /articles/1221/Cochabamba_Water_War_in_Bolivia (1921 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Bolivia - Leasing the Rain . Links and Resources \| PBS
		The report describes the events and economic climate that preceded the April riots and analyzes the challenges lying ahead for municipal control of water and sanitation services in the Cochabamba region.
		A few months after the residents of Cochabamba regained control of their municipal water system, the BBC reported on the result and what lay ahead.
		Shultz was in Cochabamba, chronicling the Bolivian people's protest against the privatization and sale of their water, and played a role in the ensuing debate.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/bolivia/links.html (1895 words)

	The Democracy Center
		In January 2000, just months after it took over control of the water system of Bolivia's third largest city, Cochabamba, a Bechtel subsidiary hit water users with enormous price increases.
		Pacific News Service article by Jim Shultz (Dec. 17, 2004): Five years after water privatization raised water rates and sparked deadly riots in Cochabamba, Bolivia, another water war is brewing in in the country, in a city to the north.
		Pacific News Service article by Jim Shultz (Feb. 08, 2000): The doctrine of privatization moves so swiftly across the underdeveloped world that there is rarely a chance to see what is actually going on.
	democracyctr.org /bolivia (741 words)

	NucNews - April 15, 2000
		Others in riot helmets and visors were scattered across the White House lawn.
		Decked out in riot gear and backed by armored cars and buses, police corralled hundreds who had been demonstrating without a permit in a drizzling rain about half a dozen blocks from the White House.
		Officially, 2,000 Russian troops have died in the last six months--a higher rate than during the bloody 1994-96 conflict in Chechnya, Russian reports say.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2000nn/0004nn/000415nn.htm (21245 words)

	disinformation \| let them sip champagne: the battle of bolivia
		In April 2000, Hugo Banzer, the former Bolivian dictator and now the President, declared martial law.
		World Bank Director James Wolfensohn commented to reporters that, "The riots in Bolivia, I'm happy to say, are now quieting down." Bechtel issued a statement denying the upheaval in Bolivia had anything to do with its plundering, and suggested the revolt was the work of those opposed to a "crackdown on coca-leaf production."
		This Americas.org article (April 2000) by Jim Shultz details what happened when the Bolivian government caved into World Bank pressure and sold Cochabamba's public water system to a British-led consortium - which proceeded to increase rates by up to 400%.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id428/pg1 (1095 words)

	CBC News - Indepth: Water Privatization
		How water privatization caused riots in the streets of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
		Atlanta, Georgia embraced privatization five years ago, and saw a drastic drop in quality and service.
		In May 2000, seven residents of the small town in Ontario died from drinking contaminated water.
	www.cbc.ca /news/features/water (462 words)

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