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Cochabamba (civil war)
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From
12/01/2007 16:40:51
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
12/01/2007 16:33:07
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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>>Some more details can be found on the BBC now - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6257625.stm
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>I wonder why does BBC say "Mr Morales's radical central government". The only radical thing I see is that "Mr Morales came to power a year ago with a radical plan to alleviate poverty in South America's poorest country. He has nationalised the energy industry and is trying to redistribute land."
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>Nationalisation is a time honored practice of redistribution of wealth when the previous regimes have put it in too few hands. I don't see anything radical there. It's been done for centuries.

Well, it does seem a radical change from the past. I am not sure what they are exactly referring to, though.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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