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¡Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia

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Historically a common believe, water is now bought and sold as a private commodity. With billions at the mercy of an unrestrained marketplace, it is easy to remember why this precious resource is at the center of the international movement working to turn back the rising tide of corporate globalization.

The triumphant struggle of grassroots activists in Cochabamba, Bolivia, sounded a significant opening salvo in the water wars. In 2001, water warriors there regained regulate of their water supply and defied all odds by driving out the transnational corporation that had stolen their water in the first place.

¡Cochabamba! is the story of the first great victory against corporate globalization in Latin The us. Oscar Olivera, a 45-year-old machinist who contributed to shaping and lead a movement that brought thousands of bizarre people to the streets, powerfully conveys the standpoint of a committed participant in a victorious and inspirational riot.

The beloved and highly respected Olivera relates the selling of the city’s water supply to Aguas del Tunari—a subsidiary of US-based Bechtel—the subsequent astronomical rise in water prices, and the refusal of poverty-strapped Bolivians to pay them. Olivera brings us to the front lines of a movement, chronicling how the people organized an opposition and the dramatic struggles that finally defeated the privatizers.

With hard-won political savvy, Olivera reflects on major themes that emerged from the war over water: the fear and isolation that Cochabambinos faced with a spirit of solidarity and mutual aid; the challenges of democratically administering the city’s water supply; and the have an effect on of the water wars on subsequent resistance.

Oscar Olivera is president of the Cochabamba Federation of Factory Workers and 2001 winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. Tom Lewis is Latin The us editor for the International Socialist Review and professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa.

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