Bolivia
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We Are That History That Is Discredited, but Which Reappears When You Least Expect It: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2020)
29 October 2020 — Tricontinental Dear Friends Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Almost exactly a year ago, on 10 November 2019, a coup d’état struck down the Bolivian people after General Williams Kaliman ‘suggested’ that President Evo Morales Ayma resign. Morales – following acts and threats of physical violence against Continue reading
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Revolts Against The Neoliberal World Order
Protests against the US and big finance-imposed neoliberal capitalism have exploded across the globe. Two weeks ago, in Pink Tide Against US Domination Rising Again In Latin America, we reviewed 12 Latin America nations that are rising up against privatization, the cutting of social programs, soaring prices and low wages. In the last week, mass protests… Continue reading
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A Conversation with Evo Morales
Bolivian President Evo Morales will travel to Russia on an official visit on July 11. The Eurasian country is an important strategic partner for Bolivians, Morales told Sputnik in an interview. The president also revealed what he thinks of Donald Trump, how to solve the Venezuelan crisis and how he envisions Bolivia over the next… Continue reading
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Bolivia’s universal healthcare is model for the world, says UN
The World Health Organization (WHO) has cited the universal healthcare system in Bolivia as a model for all. Continue reading
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Conspiracy emerges to push Julian Assange into British and US hands By Mike Head
Moves are afoot to force Assange out of Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum close to six years ago and has been forced to live as an effective prisoner. If he is taken into custody by British authorities, he faces being handed over to the US government, which has long sought to place… Continue reading
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Microanalysis of Venezuela (Designed to Fit on a Post-It) By S. Artesian
As in Greece with its “new socialists,” the Bolivarian “revolutonaries” in Venezuela have decided it’s better to starve the people than to repudiate the international debt. Continue reading
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Video: U.S. Allies Violate Int. Law Pursuing Snowden
Mark Weisbrot: Forced landing of Bolivia president’s plane and other tactics show that Snowden needs to speak directly to the public to get political asylum (inc transcript) Continue reading
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The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe By Diana Johnstone
Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant. But many people suspected that something of the sort was going on. The refusal of France, Italy and Portugal to allow the private aircraft of the President of Bolivia to cross their airspace on the mere suspicion that Edward Snowden might be aboard is rather more astonishing. Continue reading
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Snowden’s next stop: Latin America split on Snowden extradition
The regional block’s reaction will mark a “new era of Latin American sovereignty,” Eva Golinger, attorney and author, told RT. Continue reading
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‘It’s appropriate EU countries should have attempted to catch Snowden’
What Edward Snowden revealed concerns intelligence sharing between the European Union and America, the American and European intelligence agencies work “hand in glove,” John Laughland, from the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, told RT. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 20-26 January 2013: FED / Arab Winter / Egypt / Bolivia / Syria / Africa / Mali
26 January 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Committee of 147 26.01.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV In the article «What is behind the information attacks on the Federal Reserve System?» I have already written about the research group of scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute (SFI) in Zurich. Their study was published in mid-2011 and Continue reading
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ICH 22 January 2013: Imperialist Powers Escalate War in Mali
22 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Powder Keg in the Pacific By Michael T. Klare Will China-Japan-U.S. Tensions in the Pacific Ignite a Conflict and Sink the Global Economy? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33689.htm Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 21-27 Oct. 2012: Bolivia-USA / Oil-Uranium / USA / Nobel Prize / EU / China / Nicaragua
27 October 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Bolivian President Bluntly Describes US Diplomacy 27.10.2012 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV Bolivian leader Evo Morales tends to speak in a carefully chosen language, in part as a precaution natural for someone who is permanently under fire from his opponents. It long became a staple of the US propaganda Continue reading
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Coup in Paraguay: Lugo ousted – reports
Leading British figures with an interest in Latin America have joined the governments of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic in condemning what has been widely termed a “political coup” in Paraguay, where the elected President Lugo has been removed from office by an illegitimate “impeachment” process. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 3 August 2011
3 August 2011 — williambowles.info Mexico: American Ambassador Is Confirmed New York Times The former ambassador, Carlos Pascual, resigned in March after a public dispute with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico over embassy documents released by WikiLeaks. The documents showed him and other American officials criticizing Mexican authorities … http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/world/americas/03briefs-Mexico.html Continue reading
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Fintan O’Toole’s Own Cultural Revolution by William Wall
Their situation is ‘objectively’ hopeless: the whole drift of history is basically against them, they cannot rely on any ‘objective tendencies’ pushing in their way, all they can do is to improvise, do what they can in a desperate situation. But, nonetheless, does this not give them a unique freedom? And are we — today’s… Continue reading
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Evo Morales’ speech at COP-16 by Ricardo Sequeiros Coelho
For me Copenhagen was not a failure. It may have been for the powers of the world, but not for the peoples of the world who became conscious …. Hope for the peoples of the world is cooling the world, lowering the temperature. Continue reading