List: Protests in Bolivia

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•  Bolivian gas conflict

  The Bolivian gas conflict was a social confrontation in Bolivia centering on the exploitation of the country's vast natural gas reserves. The expression can be extended to refer to the general conflict in Bolivia over the exploitation of gas resources, thus including the 2005 protests and the election of Evo Morales as president.

  

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•  Cochabamba social unrest of 2007

  The Cochabamba social unrest of 2007 is an event in Bolivia. The policies of the socialist President Evo Morales had caused many politicians in other political parties to speak out openly against his goals. Especially notable among them is the Governor of Cochabamba Manfred Reyes Villa. The governor's opposition to Morales' policies angered the President's supporters, and early in 2007 demonstrations in Cochabamba escalated into violence.

  

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•  Evo Morales and the Roman Catholic Church

  The socialist administration of Bolivian President Evo Morales has not always had a good relationship with the Bolivian hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. This has become a problem for Morales as polls taken in the early 2000s indicate that 77% of the Bolivian population say they are Catholic, meaning that about seven million of the nine million Bolivians follow the Roman Catholic faith.

  

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•  Bolivian miners' protest of 2007

  In early 2007 members of Bolivia's mining co-operatives took to the streets to protest a proposed tax by the government of Evo Morales. The gravity of the situation was compounded as some threw sticks of lit dynamite.

  

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•  Oscar Olivera

  Oscar Olivera Foronda was one of the main leaders of the protesters against the water privatization in Bolivia. The result of these protests was an event known as the Cochabamba Water Wars. Now he is one the main leaders of the protests in the Bolivian gas conflict. Oscar Olivera was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001.

  

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•  2008 unrest in Bolivia

  The 2008 unrest in Bolivia began with protests against President Evo Morales and calls for greater autonomy for the country's eastern departments. Demonstrators escalated the protests by seizing natural gas infrastructure and government buildings. Violence between supporters of Morales and opponents has resulted in at least 30 deaths.

  

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•  2000 Cochabamba protests

  The Cochabamba protests of 2000, also known as the "Cochabamba Water Wars," were a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia's third largest city, between January and April 2000 because of the privatization of the municipal water supply.

  

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