Derrick Hindery, UCLA
“Social and Environmental Impacts of Economic Restructuring in Bolivia: An Analysis of Enron and Shell’s Hydrocarbons Projects”

With Enron’s spectacular financial collapse, Enron and Shell’s Cuiabá gas pipeline gained notoriety for degrading the last, most intact, dry tropical forest in the world, Bolivia’s Chiquitano Forest. This presentation explores how economic restructuring sponsored by the World Bank, IMF and Inter-American Development Bank facilitated the entrance of multinational oil corporations that caused significant social and environmental impacts in Bolivia.