Timeline of Anarchism in South America

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This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in South America (a region encompassing the states of Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

1900s

• 1979: FEJUVE, a federation of local assemblies is formed to provide support for people in the face of poverty, lack of access to essential services (such as water, electricity, paved roads, sewage, garbage collection, education, medical care and so on) rooted in indigenous Aymaran concepts of mutual aid forms in the city of El Alto, Bolivia. Where around 40% of the cities population participates in the dual power organization.
• 1997: The ongoing Second Mapuche Uprising begins, as Mapuche across Chile have resisted environmental destruction and the theft of traditional Mapuche lands through militant and revolutionary tactics.
• 2000: The Water War begins in Bolivia, as people participate the privatization of water access across the country.
• 2001: The legendary Argentinazo occurs, hundreds of workplaces are taken over and run according to the principles of self-management, strikes plague the country and people battled police in the streets in protest of a severe economic depression.
• 2003: The Gas War begins across Bolivia, as people protested the attempted privatization of Bolivia's massive reserves of natural gas.

See Also

• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in North America
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Central America
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in the Caribbean
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Western Europe
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Northern Europe
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Southern Europe
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Eastern Europe
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Northern Africa
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Western Africa
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Middle Africa
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Eastern Africa
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Southern Africa
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Western Asia
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Northern Asia
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Southern Asia
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Eastern Asia
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Southeast Asia
• Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Oceania