Week of April 9, 2011
Even the RainDescription
A little more than a decade ago, the Bolivian government joined forces with multinational organizations to privatize the water supply in the city of Cochabamba. The local community took to the streets, protesting new regulations that would make water unaffordable for the city’s poor. Some claimed that under the proposed law, people would need a license to even collect rainwater from their roofs.
That's the source of the title of the new Spanish movie, Tambien La Lluvia, or Even the Rain, which tells the story of an unsuspecting movie crew that comes to Cochabamba in the days leading up to the water war. Rachel Clift has this review.