The price of fire : resource wars and social movements in by Benjamin Dangl

By Benjamin Dangl

New social activities have emerged in Bolivia over the “price of fire”—access to easy parts of survival like water, gasoline, land, coca, employment, and different assets. although those pursuits helped pave how to the presidency for indigenous coca-grower Evo Morales in 2005, they've got made it transparent that their struggle for self-determination doesn’t finish on the poll field. From the 1st moments of Spanish colonization to today’s headlines, The expense of Fire deals a gripping account of clashes in Bolivia among company and people’s strength, contextualizing them domestically, culturally, and historically.

Benjamin Dangl has labored as an autonomous journalist all through Latin the USA, writing for courses comparable to Z Magazine, The Nation, and The Progressive. he's the editor of TowardFreedom.com, a innovative point of view on international occasions, and UpsideDownWorld.org, a web journal masking activism and politics in Latin the US. Benjamin received a 2007 venture Censored Award for his assurance people army operations in Paraguay.

Price of Fire isn't really another bleak ‘tell-all’ account of globalization, its pages are choked with tales of resistance, fight and, chiefly, hope.”—Teo Ballvé, editor of the NACLA document at the Americas and co-editor of Dispatches from Latin America

“Ben Dangl takes the reader on an unforgettable and encouraging trip via Bolivia and neighboring international locations, supplying a window at the innovative struggles of the negative and dispossessed, and especially at the resurgence of indigenous resistance and leadership.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, writer of Blood at the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War

“Most american citizens understand not anything of Bolivia, an lack of knowledge that in basic terms performs into the arms of empire. Ben Dangl’s e-book is either informative and encouraging, a remedy for the apathy that grows from that lack of expertise. A must-read for these already attracted to cohesion with Latin the USA and indigenous people.”—Tom Hayden, writer of The Zapatista Reader and Street Wars

“Ben Dangl has stumbled on himself lower than the surface of the Bolivian freedom fight: he correctly represents its constraints, its possibilities, and its hopes.”—Vijay Prashad, writer of The Darker international locations: A People’s heritage of the 3rd World

“With nice empathy and lucid prose, Dangl captures the exemplary braveness that has placed Latin the US within the leading edge of the recent internationalism and has made it one of many few shiny spots on an differently dismal international landscape.”—Greg Grandin, writer of Empire’s Workshop

"Price of Fire through Ben Dangl informs, outrages, and builds desire. People’s routine for societal betterment in South the USA are an idea for human rights activists around the world and Dangl supplies us an entire serving of encouragement and wish. He records how historic imperialism, ruled my US corporate/government capital pursuits, is being effectively challenged through indigenous activists. Price of Fire is the tale of cultural resistance from the road to foreign geo-political alliances. I hugely suggest this e-book for operating humans, scholars, and radical democrats to listen to the voices of South American humans and their chronicle of grassroots democratic empowerment."—Peter Phillips, Professor Sociology, Sonoma nation collage, Director venture Censored, and co-editor with Dennis bathroom lavatory of Impeach the President: The Case opposed to Bush and Cheney

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The logos of Coca-Cola, Nestle, Ford, and the United Fruit Company were the flags of the new colonizers. In this form of re-colonization, Washington used military regimes to usher in new economic policies, which facili39 tated US corporate exploitation. Latin American workers, farmers, students, and families resisted this corporate colonialism, demanding better wages, working conditions, distribution of land, health care, and education. Though this movement brought socialist governments to office in Nicaragua and Chile, radical groups in Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, and elsewhere were repressed before taking power.

They also demanded a meeting with President Sánchez de Lozada’s wife, who refused. “They didn’t understand our situation and so we began a hunger strike, which lasted twelve days,” she said. Through coca unions, numerous blockades and protests have been organized to defend the farmers’ right to grow coca. A highway that goes through the Chapare links the economically booming city of Santa Cruz to Cochabamba and La Paz. Blocking this important route puts pressure on the government to meet cocalero demands.

Shtml. 56 Members of the Military Junta bombed Chile’s government palace during the coup in 1973. For more information, see Kinzer, Overthrow. 57 Green, Silent Revolution, 33–34. 58 Grandin, Empire’s Workshop, 163–164, 170–174. htm. indd 33 9/13/07 12:51:32 PM 34 The Price of Fire 60 Michelle Bachelet was recently elected president of Chile and has since enacted legislation to prevent human rights violations from repeating themselves. 61 See Kohl and Farthing, Impasse, as well as Barrios de Chungara, Let Me Speak.

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