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It is entirely appropriate that the Ibero-American Presidents Summit (IAPS) takes place in Bolivia this year. For just a few weeks earlier, Bolivia was the site of a historic, perhaps epoch-making confrontation between a corrupt neo-liberal elite backed by the US Embassy and the Armed Forces and the peasants, workers, students and urban poor committed to regaining sovereign control over their energy sources and domestic markets.