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Christian Parenti

The indigenous social movements of Bolivia have ejected another president, the second in less than two years. What they are asking for is a constitutional assembly and the renationalisation of the country’s massive natural gas reserves, the second largest in South America. Bolivian petroleum and gas were state-owned until 1996.

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Christian Parenti, whose latest book is The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, is a research fellow at the City University of New York’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics.