Lessons in Blood and Fire The Deadly Consequences of IMF Economics

Through the panoramic windows of the International Monetary Fund’s office in La Paz you can see down to the rooftop where Ana Colque, a twenty-four-year-old student nurse and single mother, was shot and killed in February 2003 . Army sharpshooters sent a bullet through her chest when she climbed to...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inDignity and Defiance p. 117
Main Author Jim Shultz
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of California Press 08.12.2008
Edition1
Subjects
Banking
Banks
Budget deficits
Central banks
Deficit spending
Economic disciplines
Economics
Federal budget deficit
Financial economics
Governance
Government
Government budgets
Government officials
Government services
Income taxes
International economic organizations
International financial institutions
International political organizations
Law enforcement
Police
Political activism
Political organizations
Political processes
Political protests
Political science
Politics
Taxation
Taxes
World Bank
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Through the panoramic windows of the International Monetary Fund’s office in La Paz you can see down to the rooftop where Ana Colque, a twenty-four-year-old student nurse and single mother, was shot and killed in February 2003 . Army sharpshooters sent a bullet through her chest when she climbed to the roof to come to the aid of a twenty-five-year old repairman who had also been shot and killed by sharpshooters just an hour earlier. Both of them died during a violent military assault intended to quell public protests against an economic belt-tightening package imposed on Bolivia by the IMF.
ISBN:0520256980
9780520256989