Cocaleros y guerreros del agua despertando la noche de la Pax Americana

Abstract

In Latin America, the 21st century began with the development of the contradictions of the neoliberal era, amid the well broadcast United States economic crisis, whose consequences motivated emancipatory processes in countries such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, and Bolivia. The War over Water and Coca War in Cochabamba (as well as the Bolivian Gas War in 2003) are a consequence of the privatization and drug enforcement policies promoted by the United States and Bolivia governments. In this context, one must ask: What were the social-political consequences of such social movements for the hegemonic relationship between the United States and Bolivia? And what were the geopolitical and geo-economic repercussions for the South-American region within the framework of the United States economic crisis? The data and their analysis point to a deepening crisis and the weakening of the hegemonic relationships in the economic, political, and military arenas.