[news] Reversing the Tide in Bolivia

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"'While the poor don't have food, the rich won't have peace,' reads the graffiti scrawled onto the wall adjoining the dual carriageway that sweeps breathlessly from one of the world's highest airports into Bolivia's Andean city of La Paz....Suddenly the traditional centre of power has been full of those excluded from power for centuries - indigenous women with swirling skirts and bowler hats, Aymara men in deep-red ponchos with mouths bulging with coca leaves, rural farmers with weathered faces shaded by faded baseball caps, miners with sticks of dynamite ready to storm the Congress building."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/7/123841/2664