Campesinos take on globalization goliath

Publication date: Monday 06 December 2004

They sent a water-privatizing multinational packing, and chased an ultra-neoliberal president all the way to Miami. Now they have come head-to-head with the ultimate goliath of globalization. The people of Bolivia ? stalwarts on the front lines of anti-globalization ? are trying to wrest control of the country's oil and gas reserves from the big boys of fossil fuel.