...El Agua de la Revolución (The Water of the Revolution) The chapter opens with the ill-fated effort by the “apostle of Mexican democracy,” Francisco I. Madero, shortly before the Mexican Revolution to unite his fellow landowning, riverine Laguneros to lobby the government for a high dam...

... Bolivia and kept its indigenous populations in shackles. In his most famous work, La revolución india (1969), Reinaga used a critique of the statues and street names in La Paz to reveal how Spanish and European colonialism had distorted the identity of the nation. Such alienation justified his full...

... In the aftermath of the revolution, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) confronted dramatic economic diffculties. In January 1955, the government released its Plan inmediato de política económica del Gobierno de la Revolución Nacional , an “immediate plan” to address looming...

... Revolución Nacional , an “immediate plan” to address looming structural challenges. Significantly, the offcial who elaborated and signed the crucial document was the minister of foreign affairs, Wálter Guevara Arze, rather than the minister of finance, as might be expected. The document sought to meet two...

... of the decadent West and that a violent revolution was needed to sweep clear the vestiges of colonialism that oppressed Bolivia and kept its indigenous populations in shackles. In his most famous work, La revolución india (1969), Reinaga used a critique of the statues and street names in La Paz to reveal how...