Cochabamba We met Marcela Olivera of Food and Water Watch and squeezed into a taxi to go to the south of the city, where living is hardscrabble. There are over a 100 different water “communities” that have formed in the south to collectively finance, supervise, and deliver, as best they can within their own resources and …
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The Water Wars and Bloqueos “Every Day”
Cochabamba I had met Oscar Olivera in 2003 at the World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, but in the way of these things, it was a passing acquaintance at a meeting of unions who were fighting water privatization I attended along with Luis Isarra Delgado, our partner with the water workers of FENTAP in Peru, …
Not by Bread Alone: Art and Water in Bolivia
Cochabamba Our days in La Paz were never complete without a trip to or from El Alto, the city of a million on the top of the mountain, which made us acutely aware of the importance of this strategic location in the future of social movements and the very country. Meeting with Ivan Nogales, the director …