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Bolivias caravan of courage leaves a bittersweet legacy for disabled protesters | Jonathan Watts
When disabled protesters traversed the Andes to lobby for improved benefits, they were met with a police blockade. The Fight, a Guardian documentary, chronicles a battle that led to brutal violence but also sowed the seeds of change Even in a world grown numb to images of protesters being beaten with truncheons, sprayed with pepper spray and doused by water cannon, there is still something shocking about a video showing the President Evo Morales reputation as a defender of the poor and oppressed. Directors Violeta Ayala and Daniel Fallshaw filmed most of the material last year, when the protests were […]