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	Cochabamba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range.
		It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the third-largest city in Bolivia with a metropolitan population of more than 800,000 people.
		In 2000, Cochabamba was wracked with large-scale protests over the privatization of the city's water supply.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cochabamba,_Bolivia (437 words)

	Cochabamba protests of 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Protesters pointed to the privatization of water in Buenos Aires, where 7,500 workers were fired and prices rose, as an example of why they felt privatization was bad.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cochabamba_protests_of_2000 (693 words)

	Bolivia's War Over Water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cochabamba, Bolivia: As many as six thousand protesters continued to pour into the city's central plaza Monday on the widespread public unrest continues to bring normal life throughout the nation to a near halt.
		Those leaders of the Cochabamba water protest who were not arrested and jailed over the weekend came out of hiding today to begin a new round of negotiations with secondary level officials of the national government.
		When the protest, overwhelmingly supported by people here, refused to back down after four days the Bolivian government declared a "state of siege" arresting protest leaders from their beds in the dark of night, shutting radio stations down in mid-sentence, and sending soldiers into the street with live bullets.
	democracyctr.org /waterwar (11551 words)

	History of Bolivia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Between January and April 2000, a series of anti-privatization protests took place in Cochabamba, because of the privatization of the municipal water supply.
		Sánchez de Lozada resigned under pressure from protesters and his vice-president, Carlos Mesa, took over in 2003 with a promise to address the demands of the indigenous protesting majority.
		However, he resigned on 7 March 2005 in face of mounting protests, claiming he was unable to continue governing the country.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/History_of_Bolivia (2015 words)

	CNN.com - World - Protests rock Bolivia; officials blame drug traffickers - April 10, 2000
		Cochabamba, a city of 500,000 was to be the site of a multimillion-dollar electricity and drinking water network scheduled to be built by Aguas de Tunari, a consortium led by London-based International Water Limited.
		One of the organizers of the protests is Evo Morales, leader of the country's coca leaf producers, who strongly oppose the government's campaign to replace coca leaf crops with others, such as cotton and bananas.
		Protesters manned roadblocks near the Andean towns of Achacachi and Batallas, where one army officer and two farmers were killed and dozens injured on Sunday.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/04/10/bolivia.protests (745 words)

	Bolivia's Water War Victory
		This drastic move concludes a week of protests, general strikes and transportation blockages that have jerked the country to a virtual standstill, and follows the surprise announcement of government concession to protesters' demands to break a $200 million contract selling Cochabamba's public water system to foreign investors.
		Ninety percent of Cochabamba's citizens believed it was time for Bechtel's subsidiary to return the water system to public control, according to results of a 60,000-person survey conducted in March.
		While the people of Cochabamba were having their blood spilled on the streets, Quint's subordinates were busily removing the water company computers and financial and personnel records.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /South_America/Bolivia_WaterWarVictory.html (1959 words)

	Bolivia
		In April violent demonstrations and road blockages broke out in Cochabamba over a controversial municipal water project, and unrelated protests occurred across the country, leading to the deaths of protesters as well as members of the security forces; commerce was brought to a virtual halt.
		Protesting groups ranged from illegal coca growers in the Chapare, indigenous farmers in the highlands, to urban and rural teachers' unions, to groups protesting a controversial municipal water project in Cochabamba.
		There were allegations that security officials beat protesters who they detained in the Chapare during the September-October disturbances, as well as allegations that they beat civilians to try to learn the location of missing security officials and the names of those responsible for their deaths.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/715.htm (9821 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Bolivia - Leasing the Rain . Timeline: Cochabamba Water Revolt \| PBS
		Cochabamba protesters shut down the city for four days, going on strike and erecting roadblocks throughout the city.
		In what water protest leader and La Coordinadora spokesperson Oscar Olivera claims was a "trap," Olivera and his colleagues agree to meet with government officials in Cochabamba about the water-rate hikes.
		Oscar Olivera is arrested in Cochabamba by Bolivian authorities on charges of "sedition, conspiracy, instigating public disorder and criminal association." Warrants based on similar charges are issued for two other members of The Coalition in Defense of Water and Life.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/bolivia/timeline.html (1622 words)

	The Militant - April 24, 2000 -- Protests erupt in Bolivia, shake government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In response to growing protests by workers, peasants, and students engulfing the South American nation of Bolivia, the government April 8 declared a state of emergency.
		In response to the protests, IWL announced April 9 that they were canceling the contract.
		The body of one activist shot and killed by the police was carried through the streets of this town as protesters hailed him as a martyr.
	www.themilitant.com /2000/6416/641651.html (461 words)

	Jubilee 2000 Daily Press Cuttings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Even so the protesters hardly acknowledge the huge gains that have been made over the past year, nor do they dwell on the difficulties of ensuring the benefits go to the poor.
		Comment from economist Martin Wolf that protesters against the World Bank and IMF are in effect seeking to deny the poor the benefits of a liberal world economy.
		The protests are to last for a week, beginning with a march for debt relief organised by Jubilee 2000 and culminating in a rally-cum-civil-disobedience events next Sunday and Monday.
	www.jubilee2000uk.org /media/daily/daily100400.htm (2894 words)

	SFBG News \| Worldview: Water war \| April 19, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA – This easily forgotten country, landlocked in the middle of the Andes, burst into the news this month with a string of protests that nearly brought the entire nation to a standstill and saw President Hugo Banzer (Bolivia's 1970s Pinochet-style dictator) fall back on his old ways, declaring martial law.
		The government arrested protest leaders from their beds in the dark of night, shut radio stations down in mid-sentence, and sent soldiers into the street, this time with live ammo.
		Those protests included marches by people in the countryside over a new law taking away control of rural water systems, a police strike in the capital city of La Paz, and complaints about unfinished highways.
	www.sfbg.com /News/34/29/bolivia.html (858 words)

	July-August 2000 NVA
		That question was the center of the Bolivian crisis and it informed every discussion from the halls of government to the corporate offices to the streets of Cochabamba, Bolivia’s third largest city and the capital of the district of the same name, where the water dispute unfolded.
		“Cochabamba is a district in Bolivia with approximately one million residents,” he told me. “For 50 years there have been serious difficulties with water there because of consumption and agriculture.
		The movement leaders were released after a church group intervened on their behalf, but by then the people of Cochabamba were angry about the increasing repression—and about government propaganda alleging that the actions were organized by drug smugglers.
	www.warresisters.org /nva0900-5.htm (1594 words)

	Bechtel battles against dirt-poor Bolivia / Nation severed water deal after hefty rate increases led to protests
		Cochabamba, Bolivia -- In a Goliath-versus-David face-off, Bechtel Group of San Francisco, the largest private company in the Bay Area, is taking legal action against the government of Bolivia, one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere.
		Cochabamba is a tranquil city with a moderate climate, Spanish colonial buildings and scores of informal street markets.
		The minimum monthly wage of Cochabamba's 500,000 residents is $67, in a country in which 65 percent of the 8 million population are mired in poverty.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/02/MN41536.DTL (995 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The reforms and economic restructuring were strongly opposed by certain segments of society, which instigated frequent and sometimes violent protests, particularly in La Paz and the Chapare coca-growing region, from 1994 through 1996.
		In April 2000, Bechtel signed a contract with Hugo Banzer, the former president of Bolivia, to privatize the water supply in Bolivia's 3rd-largest city, Cochabamba.
		The Cochabamba protests of 2000 were a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia, between January and April 2000, because of the privatization of the municipal water supply, which was sold to a private company, International Waters Limited (IWL) of London (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bechtel Corporation...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bolivia (9973 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 507.
		As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 19,388.
		This move was in protest at Cuba's decision to imprison 75 dissidents and..
	www.hostingciamca.com /browse.php?title=C/C/COC (7697 words)

	Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards
		Olivera, a long-time labor leader, became the spokesperson of the Coordinator in Defense of Water and Life, a coalition of workers, environmentalists, artisans, peasants, and others who believe that water is a critical public good and should not be privatized.
		The Bolivian government responded to the coalition’s protests with force, resulting in significant civilian injuries and the death of one protestor.
		He is currently the Executive Secretary of the Federation of Factory Workers of Cochabamba, an umbrella organization comprising over 50 unions and 6,000 workers.
	www.ips-dc.org /lm-awards/2000/lm2000.htm (602 words)

	NewsMax.com: Article Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 8 (UPI) -- Continued protests over plans to raise the price of drinking water in Bolivia's third-largest city have resulted in a declaration of a state of emergency in the South American republic.
		An e-mail from Cochabamba that was relayed to United Press International by the Democracy Center mentioned that troops had moved into the city of 500,000 people, and power was out in many neighborhoods.
		He was elected president and formed a coalition government in 1997, but he received only 22 percent of the popular vote that was split among five candidates.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/archive/get2.pl?a=2000/4/8/225427 (322 words)

	The Colombia Plan: April 2000, by Noam Chomsky
		A Colombian governmental commission concluded that “the criminalization of social protest” is one of the “principal factors which permit and encourage violations of human rights” by the military and police authorities and their paramilitary collaborators.
		The protests were over the privatization of the public water system and the sharp increase in water rates to a level beyond the reach of much of the population.
		The Cochabamba protests were aimed at the World Bank and the San Francisco/London-based Bechtel corporation, the main financial power behind the transnational conglomerate that bought the public water system amidst serious charges of corruption and give-away, and then immediately doubled rates for many poor customers.
	www.chomsky.info /articles/200006--.htm (3553 words)

	ipedia.com: Cochabamba protests of 2000 Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		He called out the police, who engulfed protesters in tear gas for two days, leaving 175 injured and two youths blinded.
		Protesters poineded to the privatization of water in Buenos Aires, where 7,500 workers were fired and prices rose, as an example of why they felt privatization was bad.
	www.ipedia.com /cochabamba_protests_of_2000.html (776 words)

	Bolivia: state of emergency to crush anti-privatisation protests
		Finally on Friday April 7 the protest leaders were released and after fresh negotiations the archbishop announced to the crowds assembled in the main square that the government had agreed to break the water contract.
		On the same day the Coordinadora called off the protests in Cochabamba after it was clear that the privatisation of the water service had failed and there would be no privatisation of the use of water in the countryside which was the main demand of the peasants.
		The movement of last week in Cochabamba and the speed with which it spread to other sectors (peasants, teachers, students) shows us that the masses are prepared to fight and they have now seen for the first time in years that the mass joint mobilisation of workers and peasants can achieve important concessions.
	www.marxist.com /Latinam/bolivia400.html (2920 words)

	Democracy Now! - April 12, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As protests continue in Washington, DC this week against World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies, the population of Bolivia is engaged in an all-out war over water - and the World Bank and a major U.S. corporation are behind it.
		The protests have virtually shut down Cochabamba, Bolivia's third largest city, and led the government to make a series of promises to expel the company from Bolivia.
		The protests also forced Congress to approve legislation removing a clause that would have pegged water rates to the US dollar and another that would have forced peasants to pay for using water wells.
	www.pacifica.org /programs/democracy_now/archives/d20000412.html (515 words)

	Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The mass protests in Bolivia today are a repeat, on a larger scale, of a mass rebellion in that country in the year 2000.
		The greatest mass protest of recent years in Latin America was the “Argentinazo” of December 19–20, 2001, in Buenos Aires, where a huge outpouring of virtually every stratum of the population in that metropolitan area of many million, forced the ouster of Argentina’s president, the IMF puppet de la Rua.
		The election of Lula in Brazil in the fall of 2002 is another expression of mass protest, of the massive rejection, throughout Latin America, of the “neoliberal model” in which social needs are subordinated to “the market,” that is, the profit-seeking greed of finance capital which dominates the world market.
	www.laborstandard.org /Bolivia/Bolivia_GS.htm (2729 words)

	Water is Life - Water Privatization Conflicts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The protesters then issued the Cochabamba Declaration, which called for the protection of universal water rights for all citizens.
		So, in February 2000, La Coordinadora organized a peaceful march demanding the retraction of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Law, the termination of the water contract, the participation of citizens in creating a water resource law, and the cancellation of ordinances allowing privatization.
		After only a day of martial law, three protesters had been killed, including a 17-year old boy who was shot in the head by soldiers in Cochabamba.
	www.uwec.edu /grossmzc/VANOVEDR (2322 words)

	Choike - South could become stage for wars over water
		The parallel social forums, organized by environmental groups and social movements, were held to protest the approach taken by the Kyoto forum and to defend water as a human right and a common resource, whose management must be under public control.
		The problems caused by the privatization of water were illustrated by the series of social protests in the central Bolivian department of Cochabamba between 4-11 April 2000, in which several people were killed and almost 200 injured.
		Peasant farmers who depend on irrigation to grow their crops took to the streets to protest a government decision to grant a 40-year privatization contract over all water sources to a private company, Virginia Amurrio, one of the leaders of the Cochabamba Federation of Irrigators, told IPS by phone from Cotia.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/1207.html (736 words)

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