Bolivia
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Bolivia: Rich countries must pay their `ecological debt'
The countries most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change are developing countries. Climate-induced disasters, water stress, adverse impacts on agriculture, threats to coastlines, ecosystems and infrastructure, and altered disease vectors are already imposing substantial and rising costs, damages and setbacks in development -– undermining developing countries’ rights and aspirations to development. Continue reading
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Bolivia: Evo Morales speaks on International Mother Earth Day
The primary cause of the twenty-first century should be the recognition of the rights of Mother Earth, Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma declared hours after the General Assembly passed a resolution designating 22 April as ‘International Mother Earth Day’. Continue reading
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Bolivia Rising: Document of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) countries for the 5th Summit of the Americas
The financial system is in crisis because it is quoting the value of papers at six times the real value of goods and services being produced in the world. This is not a ‘failure of the regulation of the system’ but rather a constitutive part of the capitalist system that speculates with all goods and… Continue reading
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Bolivia Rising: Evo Morales: I want to declare myself as a marxist and communist, let's see if the OAS expels me
‘Cuba was expelled for being Leninist, Marxist, communist. I want to say to the members of the OAS, here, I want to declare myself Marxist, Leninist, communist, socialist and now let them expel me Continue reading
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Stanford laundered and siphoned money from wealthy Latin Americans to fund anti-leftist rebellions By Wayne Madsen
Stanford, with the knowledge of the Jewish investors, was laundering and forwarding their money to groups planning the overthrow of elected progressive leaders such as Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Argentina, and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Continue reading
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Morales about the IMF: “the wolf can not keep the flock”
Evo Morales has denounced Friday the injection of more than 1,000 billion dollars through the IMF against the global crisis, saying that countries at the root of the crisis can not solve it, or his words, that ‘the wolf can not keep the flock.’ Continue reading
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COHA: Bolivia’s Evo Morales’ European Tour 2009: Russia Flies the Flag Over Latin America and Everyone’s A Winner… Mostly
Washington continues to watch its influence drain in what increasingly must be viewed as its former ‘backyard’ Continue reading
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Bolivia: Evo Morales Moves to Centre Stage for Historic January 25th Referendum
Often delayed constitutional referendum now scheduled for Sunday, January 25th, with government projected to win comfortably. President Evo Morales takes to a last-minute offensive with anti-opposition rhetoric and arrests, and with plans to establish new state-owned newspaper along with another TV network. Despite optimistic government expectations surrounding referendum, 2009 likely to be characterised more by… Continue reading
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COHA: Bolivia’s Military: It’s a Difficult Life, but Certainly There Is No Sign of a Pending Military Coup
Last September, Rear Admiral Landelino Bandeiras was sworn in as interim governor of the Bolivian province of Pando. His election came after its civilian governor was arrested by the military, and charged with orchestrating the murder of more than 18 Bolivian peasant supporters of President Morales, in the town of Porvenir. Continue reading
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Adolfo Gilly: Racism, Domination and Revolution in Bolivia
The Bolivian right-wing, the old and not-so-old elites, the owners of land and of lives, were defeated by the immense indigenous and popular uprising that began with the Water Wars in the year 2000, culminated with the rebellion of El Alto in October 2003, and concluded with Evo Morales’ entry into the presidency in January… Continue reading
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U.S. reaps what it sows in Bolivia
While it appears too late for this White House to roll back the present tide of anti-U.S. sentiment in the region, the next U.S. president must embrace the irreversible changes that have taken hold among our neighbors to the south. Continue reading
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A Closer Look at Recent Violence in Bolivia – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Council on Hemispheric Affairs Recent clashes between President Evo Morales’ constitutional government and the pro-autonomy opposition in Bolivia’s eastern provinces have left 15 people dead, 35 injured and 100 missing, according to official reports. The government has accused the prefect of Bolivia’s northern Pando province, Leopoldo Fernandez, of hiring professional assassins to ‘massacre’ pro-Morales campesinos.… Continue reading
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Benjamin Dangl, “The Machine Gun and the Meeting Table: Bolivian Crisis in a New South America”
Source: MRzine On Monday, September 15, Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived in Santiago, Chile for an emergency meeting of Latin American leaders that convened to seek a resolution to the recent conflict in Bolivia. Upon his arrival, Morales said, ‘I have come here to explain to the presidents of South America the civic coup d’etat… Continue reading