Talk:Bolivian Water Wars of 2000

On call to merge
This article covers the same topic as Cochabamba protests of 2000, I made this page because I didn't know there was already an artilce on this topic as there was no links to it at either the Banzer, Morales, or Quispe pages. Also the name of the pre-existing article was odd as under naming conventions it shoould have included the term Water Wars as that was what the media reffered to the event as, when I searched for that name there was nothing so I began the page. It seems most of the information at the pre-existing page is already included here, but that page has more external links. Please review the contents of both pages.--Wowaconia 23:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes merge, and rename "Cochabamba Water Wars of 2000". Fredwerner 04:36, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

On use of name in the year
As there was another event called Water Wars in Bolivia in 2003 the use of the year here is important to distinguish the two events.--Wowaconia 23:27, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Go for the facts
The first sentence says it all: "The Bolivian economy had been ravaged by greedy generals ever since the Army coup in 1964 overthrew the government. " Why "greedy"? I mean, this isn't only against NPOV policy, although I'm sure you could actually back up this with sources (and I won't be the one to contradict you), but it only makes 6 signs more to the article, one word, and 20 readers less. Go for the facts, simplify, we don't need the whole story about how the kid got killed: knowing a military killed him, and his name, is enough. No cynism, but protests are violent in Bolivia (some 80 killed during the Bolivian Gas War, with military helicopters shooting on El Alto ). There is no need for literature here, the facts are bright (or obscure) enough. Furthermore, I've tried to simplify the sections, they're is just to many of them. Maybe using sub-sections would help - in any cases, having subsections with only two sentences is a bad idea. Despite these remarks concerning lay-out, great job! I do believe however that this should be merged to Cochabamba protests and not the reverse. Tazmaniacs 23:51, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Another note: Army coup of 1964 should lead to History of Bolivia, in order to let place for the creation of History of Bolivia from 1964 to 1982 (for example). Linking directly to presidents and biographies will render the process of creating a more detailed account of Bolivia's history very difficult. If you do find that there is more information on the biographies, why not just copy-paste them to Contemporary history of Bolivia (spanning from 19th century - Colonialism and pre-colonialism takes more than 2/3 of History of Bolivia, so such an article would be justified...). Actually, I'll start it! For you to fill :) Tazmaniacs 23:57, 13 March 2007 (UTC)