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16 June 2008updated 08 Sep 2021 12:22pm

Bolivia’s racial onslaught

Bolivian socialist politician César Navarro - ambushed by a mob in his country's constitutional capi

By New Statesman

In Bolivia racial violence is being encouraged and promoted by regional governments, civic committees and right-wing political organisations.

Evo Morales, who cut his teeth as an indigenous political leader through his campaigns for the coca-leaf growers union in the tropics of Cochabamba, has developed a revolutionary discourse born out of Bolivia’s social movements which is anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and anti-neoliberal.

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