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and its airline railroad
electric and phone companies.
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But the government failed
to convince Bolivians
:30:10
that water is
a commodity like any other.
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Bolivia was determined
:30:51
to defend
the corporations right
:30:52
to charge families
living on $ 2 a day
:30:54
as much as one quarter
of their income for water.
:30:59
The greater the popular
resistance
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to the water
privatization scheme
:31:03
the more violent
became the standoff.
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Translational corporations
have a long and dark history
:31:54
of condoning tyrannical
governments.
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I s it narcissism that compels
them to seek their reflection