This event, brought awareness of the situation to the working class and the corollary was anger and frustration against Villarroel.
The oligarchy of Bolivia was not happy with the MNR and neither was the PIR, who was afraid of the control that the MNR had over the working class. After the massacre of Catavi, the Partido de la Izquierda Revolucionaria (PIR)# and the feudal-bourgeoisie took the opportunity and mobilized the working class to overthrow Villarroel. In other words, the Rosca# utilized the unhappiness of the workers against the government of Villarroel. .
After the collapse of villarroel's government, however, the workers' mobilization ascended, and it was an impulse that imprinted new shapes for the workers revolutionary movement in Bolivia. Suffice it to say that the masses still thought that the government of Villarroel was a revolutionary one.# Nevertheless, the old oligarchy was reformed, and stayed in power for three years.
In less than four months, after the death of president Villarroel, on November 1946, the Miners Federation met in Pulacayo to discuss the orientation of the Miners Union Federation (FSTMB). There were two important political parties that were involved in the meeting, the Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR# -with Trotskyite influence- and the MNR. By this time, LechÃn# was chosen as Executive Secretary of the Federacion Sindical de los Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia. In this meeting, the two parties approved unanimously the thesis that was later known as La Tesis de Pulacayo, which was presented by the Trotskyite members of the POR, and created by Guillermo Lora, director of the Revolutionay Workers Party. La tesis de Pulacayo figured as a true revolutionary program for the working class, and it became the most important achievement of the proletarian in Latin America.# For the first time, in Latin America, the program of Trotskyism transcended the small groups and it materialized in Bolivia through the miners.
"The Resurgence of Mid-Latitude Attitudes- A Critical Look at Neo-Liberalism and The Opposition to Contemporary Colonialism in Latin America Executive Summary: During the colonial period of Latin America there was a reliance on the economic prosperity of the settlements in the Caribbean and ...