A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria #470 - World Views: BOLIVIA. On the Popular Uprising (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

For several weeks now, a popular uprising has been underway in Bolivia, 
characterized by strikes, demonstrations, and roadblocks involving 
indigenous peoples, farmers, workers, miners, teachers, and young 
people, protesting the neoliberal policies imposed by President Rodrigo 
Paz Pereira.
After the first six months of Rodrigo Paz's presidency, the Bolivian 
population has protested and continues to protest with dozens of 
roadblocks in several departments (La Paz, Oruro, Potosí, Chuquisaca, 
Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz). The protest, involving large sectors of 
Bolivian society, is against a series of economic austerity measures 
that primarily affect the country's most vulnerable sectors.
Through decrees and budget reforms, subsidies (such as those on fuel) 
have been suspended, public spending has been drastically reduced, 
public sector hiring has been halted, and measures have been adopted to 
further deregulate the market, ceding territories and common goods to 
transnational capital.
Bolivia has the world's largest lithium reserve and large mineral 
reserves of tin, copper, gold, and rare earths. The population is 
therefore strongly convinced that the government is compromising with 
foreign multinationals to grant them new economic resources, including 
hydrocarbons nationalized by the Evo Morales government.
The intensification of social protests against this "austerity and 
liberalization program" has increased government repression. More than 
150 protesters have been arrested so far, with at least 50 injured and 
one killed during the protests. Furthermore, Bolivian authorities have 
issued arrest warrants for several union leaders and members of the 
peasant movement. The charges against them include incitement to crime, 
criminal conspiracy, terrorism, terrorist financing, and attacks on the 
safety of transportation and public services.
To quell the protests, the government is also relying on militarization 
and a state of emergency, which it is already beginning to implement 
with a new decree. The state of emergency was consolidated with the 
right-wing Legislative Assembly's repeal of the law limiting the 
declaration of a state of emergency. This move increased social tension 
and protests organized by unions, organizations, and mobilized social 
movements. In early June, 80 roadblocks were recorded in various regions 
of the country. In support of the initiative, a large workers' march 
traveled 25 kilometers from the city of El Alto to the vicinity of Plaza 
Murillo, the seat of public institutions in La Paz. The cities of La Paz 
and El Alto were brought to a complete standstill due to the indefinite 
strike of urban transport workers and the shortage of fuel at gas stations.
The news coming from Bolivia has sparked international solidarity, 
shared by several anarchist organizations in other countries, with calls 
for self-organization against the state and capitalism, for social 
revolution in Bolivia and throughout the world.

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