April 1996 For centuries the coco leaf was a blessing from the Gods. It alleviated the hunger of the Bolivian poor. Today it is a source of narcotic evil for the West. Bolivia's government, reliant on US aid and vulnerable to US dictates, has been forced to uphold a war against coco producers. The 'Leopards' - anti-narcotic paramilitaries - patrol the tropical jungles of Chapere and destroy small cocaine factories. Local farmers, like Berto, are put under pressure to rip up their coco plants and rePlace them with alternative crops. But now Berto can't sell his new produce and is more impoverished than ever. Human rights organisations report violent abuses committed by the 'Leopards' against men and women. US Ambassador coolly contests such reports and admits that Bolivia would be 'hurt' if it objected to US initiatives. Evo Morales leads the Chapere people in a protest rally. In their muddy villages, the tired faces don't understand why their government is trying to destroy their livelihood. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
Tags :Cocaine, War, factory, narcotics, cocoa, poverty, Evo, Morales, Journeyman, Pictures, news, documentary, current affairs, journeyman pictures

extract from The Corporation documentary about the 2000 Cochabamba water wars. The Bolivian people took to the streets after the water giant, Betchel, took over the public water infrastructure. The privatization of the water in Bolivia was a condition of loan from the World Bank.
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War on democracy - Bolivia
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John Vidal reports from La Paz where Bolivians are living with the effects of climate change every day. Their president has called for an urgent 50% cut in emissions - action that is essential for the country's survival. This video is one of a series of investigative documentaries about poverty, commissioned and editorially controlled by Guardian Films, produced in association with Christian Aid. Go to www.guardian.co.uk for more details.
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A tribute (from the Paraguayan side) to the veterans of the Chaco War
Tags :Chaco, war, paraguay, bolivia, history, 1932, 1935

Few people knows that Bolivia had a civil war in february 2003 and in October 2003, people were protesting in La Paz and El Alto against the former president Goni Sanchez de Lozada and absurd taxations, and obviously a almost southamerican dictatorship led by USA in the background. The protest was repressed using weapons, tanks, shooting the people in the street, after a week of war the president escaped away.
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Few people knows that Bolivia had a civil war in february 2003 and in October 2003, people were protesting in La Paz and El Alto against the former president Goni Sanchez de Lozada and absurd taxations, and obviously a almost southamerican dictatorship led by USA in the background. The protest was repressed using weapons, tanks, shooting the people in the street, after a week of war the president escaped away.
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My name is Leny Olivera and this is a question from Cochabamba, Bolivia for the Republican Presidential debate, about the US 'War on Coca' in Bolivia.
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An army of adolescents wages war on Calle Pando
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I made this instead of making a PowerPoint presentation for a class. There is a lot of content missing that I covered when I actually presented to my class. There is a pretty general consensus that the water war didn't result in better water conditions in the region, but what I discovered is that the Bolivian government was actually able to get full funding for the massive Misicuni Project that many point to as the crux the water war. I think it is also important to point out that Bolivia declared clean water a human right, and encouraged the UN to do the same. In Sept 2010, the United Nations declared Clean Water and Sanitation a Human Right. This shift the way we find funding for water projects, since it should now be something that everyone has a right to for free. I look forward to seeing how Cochabamba grows in the years to come as a result of their new found water...
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MONSTER TRUCK WAR SANTA CRUZ- BOLIVIA
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Urbelinda Ferrufino (ASEO) explains, how the ecological DRY TOILET is a solution to the water contamination caused by human excrements. Urine and feeces produce dry and liquid fertilizer/compost. The 24 communities in the watershed rainforest area in Santa Cruz also plant thousands of native trees, and are opposed to REDD, and say that any involvement with REDD project would be for them - unethical.
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 16, 2 Link to full segment: www.democracynow.org Bolivian President Evo Morales recently arrived in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Summit. In a press conference Wednesday, Morales said, The budget for the United States is $687 billion for defense and they want for climate changeto save life, to save humanitythey only put up $10 billion. This is shameful.
Tags :cop15, climate, climate change, bella center, copenhagen, democracy now, democracynow.org, amy goodman, goodman

20 minutes of an awesome documentary go get it at onebigtorrent.org! This is part of our South-America project about US foreign policy. The Bolivian people, robbed of their resources, maintain their dignityand fight back. In October 2003, an extraordinary popular uprisingchallenged the US Empire and kicked out President Sanchez de Lozada ?El Gringo ? a representative of US administration and transnationals?interests. People are calling for new forms of representation and organisationthat question formal democracy and political parties, and the ?Gas War?is the latest episode in a succession of fierce and successful fightsagainst the organised theft of national resources. February 2003, amutiny by the police against the imposition of income taxation on thedestitute to fulfil IMF demands provoked the withdrawal of taxmeasures. Throughout 2002, peasants revolt against the US-imposed ?CocaWar? ? the coca-eradication plan ? that would destroy the only possiblesource of survival for thousands of poor peasants. In 2001, the peopleof Cochabamba fought successfully the ?Water War? against a mostoutrageous form of privatisation of water and forced the government tocancel the agreement with Bethell, a US-based company. ?What the Bolivian people did in October 2003 is worth more then 100 Social Forum? Evo Morales The war against the sell-off of Bolivia?s natural resources totransnational corporations goes on ? and represents the most overt andcourageous attack on neo-liberal doctrine.
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Violent confrontation between coca peasants laying siege on the city of Cochabamba and the citizens. Product of Morales' discourse
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20 minutes of an awesome documentary go get it! This is part of our South-America project about US foreign policy. The Bolivian people, robbed of their resources, maintain their dignityand fight back. In October 2003, an extraordinary popular uprisingchallenged the US Empire and kicked out President Sanchez de Lozada ?El Gringo ? a representative of US administration and transnationals?interests. People are calling for new forms of representation and organisationthat question formal democracy and political parties, and the ?Gas War?is the latest episode in a succession of fierce and successful fightsagainst the organised theft of national resources. February 2003, amutiny by the police against the imposition of income taxation on thedestitute to fulfil IMF demands provoked the withdrawal of taxmeasures. Throughout 2002, peasants revolt against the US-imposed ?CocaWar? ? the coca-eradication plan ? that would destroy the only possiblesource of survival for thousands of poor peasants. In 2001, the peopleof Cochabamba fought successfully the ?Water War? against a mostoutrageous form of privatisation of water and forced the government tocancel the agreement with Bethell, a US-based company. ?What the Bolivian people did in October 2003 is worth more then 100 Social Forum? Evo Morales The war against the sell-off of Bolivia?s natural resources totransnational corporations goes on ? and represents the most overt andcourageous attack on neo-liberal doctrine.
Tags :evo, morales, war, cocaine, colombia, peacetalk, bolivia, bush, america, iraq, us, foreign, policy, election, debate, lecture, chomsky

20 minutes of an awesome documentary go get it! This is part of our South-America project about US foreign policy. The Bolivian people, robbed of their resources, maintain their dignityand fight back. In October 2003, an extraordinary popular uprisingchallenged the US Empire and kicked out President Sanchez de Lozada ?El Gringo ? a representative of US administration and transnationals?interests. People are calling for new forms of representation and organisationthat question formal democracy and political parties, and the ?Gas War?is the latest episode in a succession of fierce and successful fightsagainst the organised theft of national resources. February 2003, amutiny by the police against the imposition of income taxation on thedestitute to fulfil IMF demands provoked the withdrawal of taxmeasures. Throughout 2002, peasants revolt against the US-imposed ?CocaWar? ? the coca-eradication plan ? that would destroy the only possiblesource of survival for thousands of poor peasants. In 2001, the peopleof Cochabamba fought successfully the ?Water War? against a mostoutrageous form of privatisation of water and forced the government tocancel the agreement with Bethell, a US-based company. ?What the Bolivian people did in October 2003 is worth more then 100 Social Forum? Evo Morales The war against the sell-off of Bolivia?s natural resources totransnational corporations goes on ? and represents the most overt andcourageous attack on neo-liberal doctrine.
Tags :evo, morales, war, cocaine, colombia, peacetalk, bolivia, bush, america, iraq, us, foreign, policy, election, debate, lecture, chomsky

or more than 30 years, a drug war was waged in Bolivia with the help of the US drug enforcement administration. Bolivias Yungas region is one of the worlds leading sources of the coca plant — the key ingredient in the production of cocaine. But Bolivias leftist leader, Eva Morales — himself a former coca farmer — recently expelled US drug enforcement agents from the country. As Worldfocus Ivette Feliciano, Bryan Myers and Ara Ayer discovered, many impoverished Bolivians depend on the coca plant for their livelihood. Worldfocus video podcast: feeds2.feedburner.com worldfocus.org
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This shows the truth about cocaine, this video is made about colombia, but in nearly all of south american countries you will find the same corruption and powerty and the same situation going on. This also discusses environmental damage, in this case the damage is caused by the military, using herbicides to kill of coca plants, they claim it destroys coca plants only, but the truth is coca plants are very resistant, usually they resist the herbicides, and after 1-2 generations they grow again in full strength in the same field. But in contrary this herbicedes damage: Crops of honest farmers(like bananas etc.), trees, bushes and grass in the whole area. The effects of it are truly damaging to our rainforests, and tons of it are sprayed every year by military helicopters, and dont forget colombia has the second biggest rainforest area in the world, and is very important in regulating CO² emissions. Also theres a lot of small wars going on, and a lot of powerty and lacking education as the result of corruption drives many to malnutrition or even starvation. And to all cocaine users I say this: Watch this, and when u realized for christ sake get off coca once and for all! This is not about your body or health or life, but with every gram cocaine u buy, u support blood money and enviromental damage, and thats the point. Oh and sorry about the bad quality, cant change it, I cant make a video that is raw in this quality already any better, I can only make sure its the same ...
Tags :Bolivia, War, Corruption, Military, Cocaine, Coca plant, Herbicides

MY GRATITUDE TO THOSE BOLIVIAN VETERANS, WHO GAVE THE BEST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES IN THE CHACO WAR TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF OUR MOTHER LAND BOLIVIA. MY FATHER URBANO ARANCIBIA RIOS FOUGHT IN THE BATTLES OF: LA CHINA, TEZEN, CAMPO JURADO, CAMPO SANTA CRUZ, CAÑADA STRONGEST, PUERTO HERRAJE, CAÑADA COCHABAMBA, CELINA, CAROSI, IBIBOBO, TARINGUITA, TARAIRI, Y SECTOR VILLAMONTES. HE SERVED IN THE DESTACAMENTO TERÁN Y EL REGIMIENTO LOA 4 DE INFANTERIA The two beautiful background songs are from the CD Amistad by Juan Lázaro Méndolas. The first one is Koyllor and the second is Churito
Tags :Bolivia, Guerra del Chaco, Urbano Arancibia Rios, Jorge E. Arancibia