Evo's Bolivia: Continuity and Change by Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl

By Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl

In this compelling and complete examine the increase of Evo Morales and Bolivia's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl provide a considerate evaluate of the changes ushered in by way of the western hemisphere's first modern indigenous president. obtainable to all readers, Evo's Bolivia not just charts Evo's upward thrust to energy but additionally bargains a historical past of and context for the MAS revolution's position within the emerging "pink tide" of the political left. Farthing and Kohl research the numerous social activities whose agendas have set the political weather in Bolivia and describe the tough stipulations the management inherited. They assessment the result of Evo's regulations by means of interpreting numerous measures, together with poverty; wellbeing and fitness care and schooling reform; normal assets and improvement; and women's, indigenous, and minority rights. Weighing the confident with the damaging, the authors provide a balanced review of the implications and shortcomings of the 1st six years of the Morales administration.

At the center of this booklet are the voices of Bolivians themselves. Farthing and Kohl interviewed men and women in executive, in social activities, and at the streets in the course of the kingdom, and their varied backgrounds and stories supply a multidimensional view of the management and its development to date. eventually the "process of swap" Evo promised is precisely that: an ongoing and intricate procedure, but an enormous instance of improvement in a globalized global.

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Evo's Bolivia: Continuity and Change

During this compelling and accomplished examine the increase of Evo Morales and Bolivia's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl supply a considerate assessment of the adjustments ushered in by means of the western hemisphere's first modern indigenous president. available to all readers, Evo's Bolivia not just charts Evo's upward thrust to strength but additionally deals a background of and context for the MAS revolution's position within the emerging "pink tide" of the political left.

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Within weeks of assuming office, under the aegis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the MNR’s president, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, embraced one of the world’s earliest and most severe neoliberal structural adjustment programs. 32 Structural adjustment rested on a foundation of international aid, which skyrocketed to three times the world average; the informal sector’s capacity to absorb labor; the boom in coca (and cocaine) production; and the almost unfettered flow of contraband.

Within weeks of assuming office, under the aegis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the MNR’s president, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, embraced one of the world’s earliest and most severe neoliberal structural adjustment programs. 32 Structural adjustment rested on a foundation of international aid, which skyrocketed to three times the world average; the informal sector’s capacity to absorb labor; the boom in coca (and cocaine) production; and the almost unfettered flow of contraband.

Whether rural or urban, indigenous people remained second-­ class citizens. 28 Shaped by various strains of Marxist ideology, the COB headed the struggle for social and economic justice for the next forty years. 29 In 1964, the army seized power, plunging the country into eighteen years of almost uninterrupted dictatorships. 30 The 28 Evo’s Bolivia first military regime promised campesino unions that the gains made in the 1952 revolution would not be reversed, forging a pact that was vital to the armed forces’ ability to retain power.

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