The TIPNIS Affair: Indigenous Conflicts and the Limits on "Pink Tide" States Under Capitalist Realities

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[9] Author unknown, "Persisten en debatir."

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[14]  ibid.

[15] Federico Fuentes, "Bolivia: NGOs wrong on Morales and Amazon," Green Left (Australia), September 25, 2011, accessed November 21, 2011, quoted in Kevin Young, "Bolivia Dilemmas: Turmoil, Transformation, and Solidarity," ZNet, October 1, 2011, accessed November 21, 2011, http://www.zcommunications.org/bolivia-dilemmas-turmoil-transformation-and-solidarity-by-kevin-young

[16] Kevin Young, "Bolivia Dilemmas."

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[20] ibid.

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[24] ibid.

[25] Chávez, "Native Protesters Celebrate."

[26] Jeffery R. Webber, From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales (Chicago: Haymarket, 2011), 190.

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[29] ibid.

[30] Young, "Bolivia Dilemmas."

[31] Sarah Hines, "Bolivia Under Evo Morales," New Socialist, November 27, 2011, accessed December 6, 2011, http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=545:bolivia-under-evo-morales&catid=51:analysis&Itemid=98

[32] ibid.

[33] ibid.

[34] ibid.

[35] Tegel, "Left vs. indigenous."; Read, "Bolivia Amazon road dispute."

[36] Emily Achtenberg, "Bolivia: Exploiting the TIPNIS Conflict," North American Congress on Latin America - Rebel Currents, October 7, 2011, accessed November 21, 2011, https://nacla.org/blog/2011/10/7/bolivia-exploiting-tipnis-conflict

[37] ibid.

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[40] Federico Fuentes, "Bolivia: US Worked to Divide Social Movements, WikiLeaks Shows," Monthly Review - MRZine, September 18, 2011, accessed November 21, 2011, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/fuentes180911.html

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