The water war: How Cochabamba defied the Washington consensus and won.
Cochabamba Water War** was a pivotal moment in 2000 when Bolivian citizens successfully resisted water privatization by a multinational corporation.
In the year 2000, in a remote Bolivian city most of the world had never heard of, ordinary people did something extraordinary — they took on a multinational corporation, defied their own government, resisted the Washington Consensus, and won. The Water War of Cochabamba, Bolivia, was not just a local revolt against unaffordable water bills. It was the first crack in the wall of neoliberalism that had been suffocating Latin America for fifteen years, a warning shot heard from Montevideo to Milan, and the opening chapter of a global struggle to reclaim water as a human right.
To understand why it happened, one must first understand what had been done to Latin America by the Washington Consensus.
