Bolivia's Right-Wing Orchestrates a Civic Strike

EPISODE: Bolivia’s Right-Wing Orchestrates a Civil Strike


GUESTS: Camila Escalante and Ollie Vargas of Kawsachun News and
the podcast Latin America in Review


BACKGROUND:


In the last 21 days former coup leader and current governor of
the Department of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, has been
allowed “to carry out a coup d’état in the city of Santa Cruz,”
in the words of Pedro Damián Dorado, vice president of the
association of municipalities of the department by the same name.
Constant media misinformation is the glue that holds together
Camacho’s base, which can be counted in the nearly 230,000,
mostly middle-class people who turned out for his latest
political meeting. In late October, Camacho launched the shutdown
of the city for the foreseeable future. It is Bolivia’s largest
and most prosperous metropolis – and the economic motor of the
country. Camacho is a very rich man and to preserve the wealth of
the few, he is once again acting as a threat to Bolivian
democracy.


But, the story from the grassroots has shifted radically since
the de facto coup regime that came to power three years ago
and lasted less than a year. When the far-right of Camacho
declared a total strike and work stoppage in the city of Santa
Cruz three weeks ago, the masses refused to comply. 


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ADDITIONAL LINKS:


What’s Happening in Bolivia: CEPR’s Recent Work





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