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Bolivia: US embassy admits 'economic roots of social revolution'

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2011-09-18
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/670">Federico Fuentes</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>Neoliberal policies “which have fed the growing political disaffection of Bolivia's majority poor, have helped fuel the country's rolling 'social revolution.'"</p>
<p>This was how a May 6, 2006, US embassy cable from La Paz recently released by WikiLeaks viewed the powerful wave of struggle that led to the election of Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, in 2005.</p>
<p>This secret assessment came despite Washington publicly trumpeting neoliberal policies as the way to solve the problems of Latin America's poor. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/48866" target="_blank">read more</a></p>