Behind the Bolivian uprising
An article for the Alliance for Green Socialism, by Paul Hampton, Alliance for Workers’ Liberty The barricades in the Bolivian uprising have come down for now, but the struggle is far from over. For the past month Bolivia has been rocked by strikes, road blockades and street demonstrations, which have forced the president Carlos Mesa to resign on 6 June. Mesa had only been in power since October 2003, when the previous president Sanchez de Lozada resigned after similar mobilisations. The new President, Eduardo Rodriguez, a supreme court judge, is likely to call new elections for later this...