[news] Bolivia's Neo-Liberal Era Under Threat

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the implementation of Decree 21060, which heralded the dawning of the era of neoliberal “free market” policies in Bolivia. According to Jim Schultz, executive director of the Democracy Center, a human rights investigative organisation based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and San Francisco, California, this South American country of 8.8 million people “has been essentially the lab rat for the politics of the International Monetary Fund [IMF] and the World Bank” for the last 20 years.

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