The Cochabamba water war helped strengthen the broader social and Indigenous movements that supported Evo Morales’s political rise in the early 2000s. Morales, then a prominent coca growers’ union leader, supported the protests and opposed water privatization. The movement contributed to growing opposition to Bolivia’s political establishment, helping create conditions for Morales’s election as president in 2005.
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