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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: People from Cochabamba (city), People from Cochabamba Department, Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, 2000 Cochabamba protests, Cochabamba social unrest of 2007, Julio Cesar Baldivieso, Jaime Paz Zamora, Thaddaus Haenke, Daniel Salamanca Urey, Juan Jose Torres, Walter Guevara, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Simon Iturri Patino, Carlos Quintanilla, Marco Sandy, Alvaro Garcia Linera, Carlos Fernando Borja, Even the Rain, Oscar Carmelo Sanchez, Eduardo Rodriguez, Jorge Wilstermann International Airport, Windsor del Llano, Cristo de la Concordia, Vladimir Soria, William Ramallo, Diego Bengolea, Mauricio Baldivieso, Jose Ramiro Suarez Soruco, Didi Torrico, Jaime Laredo, Gonzalo Galindo, Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, Cochabamba Bolivia Temple, Javier del Granado, Franz Calustro, Carlos Blanco Galindo, Richard Rojas, South American Parliament, Bolivia Adventist University, Edgar Olivares, Christian Vargas, Alvaro Ricaldi, Marcelo Carballo, Pedro Blanco Soto, Pedro Power, Mauricio Soria, Vladimir Castellon, Edward Zenteno, Dominique Peltier, Pedro Ignacio Rivera, Wilson Hermosa Gonzalez, Jose Aguirre de Acha, Club Litoral. Excerpt: 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 1999 and April 2000 in response to multinational participation in the infrastructure and management of the city's municipal water supply. The restoration of civilian rule to Bolivia in 1982 ended decades of military dictatorships, but did not bring economic stability. In 1985, with hyperinflation at an annual rate of 25 thousand percent, few foreign investors would do business in the country. The Bolivian government turned to the World Bank as a last refuge against economic meltdown. For the next 20 years, successive governments followed the Wo...
