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I interesting study of organizational resilience to under maximal repression (Pinochet). Some follow-up thoughts on Bolivia… @stschrader1/1674830286608121888Permalink On twitter.com
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Bolivia had hard organizational crackdowns in 1971, 1974, 1980; and mass arrests of organizational leadership in 1985, 1986, 1996, 2000. These crackdowns were disabling to protest waves in 1980, '85, and especially' 86.Permalink On twitter.com
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Significantly, an underground peasant movement, the Kataristas, proliferated in the 1970s, culminating in a new peasant union confederation c. 1978.Permalink On twitter.com
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Movements adapted to repressive strategies. They mobilized despite leadership being mass arrested in 1996, 2000. And the mass actions of November and December 1979, they also outflanked pressure on organizational centers.Permalink On twitter.com
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Meanwhile cell-style guerrilla movements never widely proliferated and two cell-based guerrilla movements were crushed by raids in the 1980s.Permalink On twitter.com
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Ultimately the 2000-2005 grassroots upsurge grew out of decentralized and rapidly expanding mobilizations that far exceeded formal structures (except in the rural uprisings of the CSUTCB and cocaleros), suggesting that mass organization around platforms of demands works too.On twitter.com
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Even in the 1970s, Bolivian repression may have been less harsh, unforgiving, and systematic than in the rest of the Southern cone. That different strategies worked under these conditions suggests we shouldn't overgeneralize about repression.Permalink On twitter.com