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        1. 34 years ago, on June 27, 1988, Bolivia’s then-nascent Chapare coca grower’s union movement suffered its greatest single-day loss of life, the Villa Tunari Massacre. woborders.blog/2020/08/16/villa-tunari-massacre-dossier/
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        This violent response to unarmed protest killed 10 to 12 people through gunshots and deaths from drowning as protesters fled gunfire.
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      It also forged the defiant union-leading career of young coca grower syndicalist Evo Morales, later Bolivia's first Indigenous president.
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    The coca conflict has been the deadliest of all issues in Bolivia's recent democratic history. A sustained eradication campaign claimed more than 20 lives in 1998.
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      The 2019 Sacaba massacre, which killed 11 coca growers in protests of Evo Morales' ouster was approximately as deadly as the Villa Tunari Massacre.
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        More on the cited data work here: @CarwilBJ/1529545037884833792?t=WnlaEtG6hbMdMcJHcd45vg&s=19
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          Work from this research project has been publicly shared by updating the Villa Tunari Massacre article on @Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Tunari_massacre (All of it uses existing sources per WP:NOR)
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