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deafmuslimpunx: This film from Spain is about the 2000 Cochabamba protests in Bolivia. You should check it out if you haven’t seen it or not familiar with the Cochabamba Water War (another nickname for the 2000 protests). According to The Ecologist in 2000, the World Bank declared it would not “renew” a 25 million USD loan to Bolivia unless it privatized its water services.[2] According to Jim Shultz, executive director of the Democracy Center in Cochabamba, the World Bank believed that “poor governments are often too plagued by local corruption and too ill equipped to run public water systems efficiently. …[and that the use of private corporations] opens the door to needed investment and skilled management,”[3] In a 1999 Public Expenditure Review, the World Bank stated that “no subsidies should be given to ameliorate the increase in water tariffs in Cochabamba”.[4]The New Yorker reported on the World Bank’s motives, “Most of the poorest neighborhoods were not hooked up to the network, so state subsidies to the water utility went mainly to industries and middle-class neighborhoods; the poor paid far more for water of dubious purity from trucks and handcarts. In the World Bank’s view, it was a city that was crying out for water privatization.”[1] It’s an amazing case of poor people uniting and rising above greedy capitalists and neoliberals, you should read more.

deafmuslimpunx:

This film from Spain is about the 2000 Cochabamba protests in Bolivia. You should check it out if you haven’t seen it or not familiar with the Cochabamba Water War (another nickname for the 2000 protests).

According to The Ecologist in 2000, the World Bank declared it would not “renew” a 25 million USD loan to Bolivia unless it privatized its water services.[2] According to Jim Shultz, executive director of the Democracy Center in Cochabamba, the World Bank believed that “poor governments are often too plagued by local corruption and too ill equipped to run public water systems efficiently. …[and that the use of private corporations] opens the door to needed investment and skilled management,”[3]

In a 1999 Public Expenditure Review, the World Bank stated that “no subsidies should be given to ameliorate the increase in water tariffs in Cochabamba”.[4]The New Yorker reported on the World Bank’s motives, “Most of the poorest neighborhoods were not hooked up to the network, so state subsidies to the water utility went mainly to industries and middle-class neighborhoods; the poor paid far more for water of dubious purity from trucks and handcarts. In the World Bank’s view, it was a city that was crying out for water privatization.”[1]

It’s an amazing case of poor people uniting and rising above greedy capitalists and neoliberals, you should read more.

(Source: badass-bharat-deafmuslimpunkstar, via gadaboutgreen)

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