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A chronological overview of deaths in Bolivian political conflict by domain of protest. Deadliest conflicts have been on coca, gas privatization, partisan politics (including 2006-9, 2019 crises), rural land (including Laymi/Qaqachaka conflict). #UltimateConsequences #rstatsOn twitter.com
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By taking average years for each domain, we can see which conflicts predominated before/after the 2005 rise of the Movement Towards Socialism, a year with just one death.Permalink On twitter.com
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Largely neoliberal-era conflicts: coca, gas wars, rural land, economic policies, labor, peasant, drug trade*, guerillas. * The database only considers deaths where a mass movement engaged on the issue.Permalink On twitter.com
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Largely plurinational-era conflicts: partisan conflicts, mining, municipal governance, urban land conflicts, local development, paramilitaries, indigenous environmentalism, disabled rights. Mining is pretty balanced between the two.Permalink On twitter.com
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Along with these topical shifts, there is a move from largely state/movement violence during the neoliberal presidencies to inter-movement violence during the MAS-IPSP presidencies. Áñez and the interim miltary government of Nov 2019 maintain the neoliberal pattern.Permalink On twitter.com
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Six more non-state-involved deaths from May 2022 are yet to be coded into the dataset.Permalink On twitter.com