Oscar Olivera (union leader)

Oscar Olivera Foronda (born January 10, 1955 in Oruro ) is a Bolivian union leader, human rights and environmental activist.

Life

Oscar Olivera was one of the leaders of the protests against the privatization of water supplies in Bolivia . He is a member of the “water coordination” of Cochabamba . The union leader became known in 2000 through the "water war", through which the US group Bechtel Corporation was forced to withdraw from the drinking water supply of the Bolivian city of Cochabamba. Olivera appears in the 2006 documentary The Big Sale by director Florian Opitz .

Olivera later led the protests against the privatization of gas supplies in Bolivia.

Honors

• 2001: Goldman Environmental Prize

Fonts

• Oscar Olivera, Tom Lewis: Cochabamba! Water rebellion in Bolivia . South End Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2004, ISBN 0-89608-702-6 .

Web links

• Confrontation can still escalate. Interview with Oscar Olivera, Der Standard, June 10, 2005
• Bolivian Activist Oscar Olivera on Bechtel's Privatization of Rainwater and Why Evo Morales Should Remember the Ongoing Struggle Over Water Democracy Now! , October 5, 2006
• The left only want power Die Tageszeitung, December 17, 2005
• Bolivia is on the brink of civil war, Die Tageszeitung, June 10, 2005
• A letter from social director Oscar Olivera in Cochabamba, Bolivia www.narconews.com, February 6, 2006
• The Streets and the State in Bolivia ZNet, April 22, 2006
• Recovering Bolivia's Oil and Gas counterpunch, June 10, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lizeth Fabiola López Alaniz: Semblanza de Oscar Olivera Foronda. De fabril a líder de una revuelta . United Press International, October 31, 2009 ( online ( January 12, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive ), accessed December 17, 2017) (Spanish).
2. ^ Press booklet for the film The Big Sale , Majestic Filmverleih, 2007.