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      1. #BoliviaEnCrisis Three leaders from El Alto's October 2003 uprising voice disappointment in the August 2020 strategy of the MAS re: blockades. Their words are a pretty solid guide to grassroots frustration… elalteno.com.bo/ciudad/20200814/luchadores-de-octubre-afirman-que-el-mas-sufre-autoderrota
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      All three: Alteños mobilized and got very little in the way of concrete gains from the blockades. Election remains on the same day.
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    Roberto De la Cruz: "What is clear is that the MAS betrayed the struggle of the people by pardoning the Croats [Branko Marinkovic was recently appointed to cabinet] and making pacts with the neoliberals in the parliament."
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      Roberto de la Cruz headed the El Alto regional labor federation in 2003.
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        Eddy Condori: " What pains me the most is that they used the people for nothing, because the Masistas didn't even manage to move one hair on the cat."
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          Rufo Calle suggests that small concessions, like tractors for peasant communities, would have been better. But a national agenda of demands wasn't consolidated.