POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hugo Banzer, Plan Colombia, Defoliant
13 May 2018
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POLI319: Wednesday April 11th, 2018
Bolivia
Indigenous Movements: Changing the State from Within?
- Bolivia exemplifies this but it is a trend in Peru and Ecuador also link to the kind of populism
we talked about at the beginning of the semester that emerged under Chavez in Venezuela
- Talked about how historically the larger a percentage of the population that is indigenous in a
given LA population the lower the chances of a functional democracy
- For reasons like large indigenous populations often resists in large working class and a large
rural population, emergence of social movements or guerrilla movements against a govt.
interested in promoting interests of the wealthy few and foreign interests
- Boliia uder Hugo Bazer; Bazer’s etree right ig ies
- How different it was for Bolivia to first time experience the election to power of an indigenous
leader?
- Eva Morales who led the movement to socialist party, hails from major indigenous ethno-
linguistic group in Bolivia
- Important majority of Bolivian people who fond representation in the government for the first
tie (6% of Boliia’s population self-idetified as idigeous
- Forer leader of Boliia oa groer’s uio (oa ultiatio a iportat part of
indigenous)
- Promoting right of coca farmers vis a vis US anti drug initiatives in LA (especially Plan
Colombia, but a lot of the cocaine that was being trafficked through Colombia in 1980s and
Mexico now today it is not necessarily grown in Colombia or Mexico, raw material grown in
Peru or Bolivia and then taken and refined for export to other countries Canada, US etc.)
- US spraying defoliants that are intended to kill plants especially US did in war on drugs, this in
Vietnam and still poisons people to this day
- Morales as a propoet oa farer’s rights as hallegig the poer struture i Boliia
but directly challenging the US through promoting coca farmers rights to represent a thorn in
terms of US policy towards LA
Morales Picture
- Dressing in traditional indigenous dress, woven shirts or dressing in what could be understood
as a nod to the working class but without embracing western image
- Image matters but the image tells us a lot about the political agenda but this sector of society
i Boliia hih he ats to …
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Domestic policies
- Nationalization of natural gas fields, worried foreign investors with intention of using the
profits or at least cause he wanted to use the profits to help the poor and
- Similar set of policies adopted by Chavez in Venezuela around the same time
Loals right, ephasized Boliia’s ulti-ethnic nature and then invested
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Document Summary
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