[Marxism] IPS: Country Welcomes Cuban Doctors

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Bill Quimby <wquimby at ecr.net> wrote:

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>
> Does anyone recall a New Yorker article a while ago (ten years ago?)
> about a similar effort to privatise water in a Latin (Central?) American
> country (with Bechtel I believe as the contractor) and how the public
> rose to defeat it.? As I recall the government stated that it was only
> trying
> to guarantee clean, safe, water supplies for all. That this "all" could
> not
> afford the clean, safe water did not seem to be a government concern.


That was Bolivia.

By the way,  Robert Newman's excellent novel  "The Fountain at the Center of
the World"  is set  against the backdrop of water struggles in different
parts of the world. It is a great novel about globalisation and resistance.

Water struggles are currently also taking place against several Coca Cola
bottling plants  in India, which have been accused of depleting the
groundwater in the areas they operate.