The water defenders : how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed
Title:
The water defenders : how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed
Author:
Broad, Robin, author.
ISBN:
9780807029022
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Physical Description:
211 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- White men in suits (2002-2004) -- A new pact with the devil (2005) -- State of siege (2006-2008) -- Local terror, global extortion (2009) -- With a fat cat and Sun Tzu, the resistance goes global (2010-2015) -- Judgment day at the kangaroo court : "El Salvador always loses" (2016) -- Decision time : water for life or water for gold? (2017) -- Epilogue: The vote heard round the world ... but who killed Marcelo?
Abstract:
"A narrative account of how El Salvador's water protectors successfully fought off an international corporation and won an unlikely battle against the World Bank"-- Provided by publisher.
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