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Weekly Report - 15 December 2011 (WR-11-50)
BOLIVIA: Key absences at ‘plurinational’ summit
It was billed by the government of President Evo Morales as the first ever ‘plurinational’ summit, allowing social organisations to have a say in the next phase of Bolivia’s “process of change”. Yet the significance of the 12-14 December Cochabamba summit lay rather in the list of attendees. Conspicuous by their absence were two key components of Morales’s support base: the main trade union confederation, the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB); and the two leading indigenous groups, the lowlands-based Confederación de Pueblos Indígenas de Bolivia (Cidob), and the highlands-based Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Qullasuyu (Conamaq). While unlikely to pose much threat to Morales in the short term, the distancing of the two sectors highlights the shift within his support base.
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