Book Presentation in Cochabamba this Thursday

I am happily back in Bolivia after my travels to the US. This week The Democracy Center will host its first of two public presentations of our new book on the IMF in Bolivia, Deadly Consequences, here in Cochabamba. This one will be in English. We will do another in Spanish in a few weeks after the Spanish translation is completed.

Here are the details. If you are in Cochabamba this week please join us!

DEADLY CONSEQUENCES -- THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND IN BOLIVIA

Thursday, May 5, 2005 – 7:30pm

La Republica -- 342 Ecuador
(between @25 de Mayo y España)

Jim Shultz will speak about The Democracy Center’s new book on the IMF and Bolivia’s Febrero Negro. Based on interviews with President Carlos Mesa, IMF officials, Bolivian human rights leaders, eyewitnesses and many others, the book traces the connection from IMF policy to 34 deaths in La Paz.

From the Introduction to Deadly Consequences:

Through the large windows of the International Monetary Fund's office in La Paz you can see down to the rooftop where Ana Colque was shot and killed in February 2003. Army sharpshooters sent a bullet through her chest during a military assault intended to quell public protests against an economic belt-tightening package imposed on Bolivia by the IMF. Colque, 24, was among thirty-four people killed during two days of violent conflict sparked by the announcement of a new tax on the nation's working poor.

Admission Free -- Refreshments Available