Evo Morales
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Four Keys to Understanding Evo’s Bolivia
How is it possible that there are doubts about the continuity of the President responsible for the political and economic stability in the country with the largest growth rate in the region? Continue reading
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Ecuador’s Austerity Measures, Repression Based on Lies AP Happily Spread
Bernie Sanders tweeted an Associated Press article in the LA Times (10/14/19) about Ecuador’s recent protests, in which eight protesters were killed in 11 days. “Economic elites keep pushing austerity worldwide, making life unbearable for working people,” Sanders declared. Unfortunately, that AP piece was itself a good example of how elites push for austerity. Continue reading
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To Defend Evo’s Victory is to Defend the Peace, Democracy, Prosperity and Sovereignty of Latin America as a Whole
A new chapter is added to the complex scenario recently configured in Latin America with the anti-neoliberal popular rebellions in Ecuador, Haiti and Chile, in which the right-wing forces that govern in those countries have responded with the most brutal repression: the disregard of Evo Morales’ resounding electoral triumph by the Bolivian and international right-wing,… Continue reading
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President of Bolivia Celebrates Victory in the First Round of the General Elections
President Evo Morales announced today the victory of the Socialist Movement (MAS) for the fourth time in a row in the general elections of Bolivia, after knowing the preliminary results of Sunday’s polls. Continue reading
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Assange on the Untold Story of the Grounding of Evo Morales’ Plane During Edward Snowden Manhunt
Assange explains the details of the operation to get Snowden to a safe place and how it was disrupted by US intel in cahoots with European allies. 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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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
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BOLIVIA: Do Indigenous Concepts Help or Hinder in Fighting the World’s Climate Crisis?
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth[1], held in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April, has fueled a growing debate in Latin America over the validity and usefulness of traditional Indigenous value systems and forms of organization in resolving the pressing social problems of the region, not least the challenges posed… Continue reading
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Bolivia: Morales Asks Workers to Be Rational and Responsible for the Country by TeleSur
President Morales exhorted workers to rethink, because the latest wage increase of 5 percent is superior to what previous governments offered and, moreover, over the four years under his administration, the wages have risen 40 percent. He called on workers’ unions to compare this wage increase with the current inflation rate of 0.26 percent in… Continue reading
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Roger Rashi, "Cochabamba Eyewitness: A Great Boost for Ecosocialism"
I attended the alternative Climate Conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba as part of an eight-person Quebec activist delegation. I came back convinced that we witnessed a turning point in the global Climate Justice movement. Continue reading
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Bolivia's resource dilemma
Historic summit closes in Bolivia, while government grapples with it’s global leadership on environmental issues. Bolivia’s social spending is largely due to destructive exploitation projects. A problem faced by many countries, Bolivia has an answer, it’s called climate debt. Continue reading
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Bolivia’s resource dilemma
Historic summit closes in Bolivia, while government grapples with it’s global leadership on environmental issues. Bolivia’s social spending is largely due to destructive exploitation projects. A problem faced by many countries, Bolivia has an answer, it’s called climate debt. Continue reading
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"World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth: Live from Cochabamba"
20 April, 2010 — MRZine/Monthly Review For more information, visit cmpcc.org http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.936530 Continue reading
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Eduardo Galeano, "Message to the Mother Earth Summit: The Rights of Human Beings and the Rights of Nature Are Two Names of the Same Dignity"
From the times of the European Renaissance, nature has been turned into a commodity or an obstacle to human progress. And, to this day, this divorce between us and her has persisted, so much so that there still are people of good will who are moved by poor nature, so abused, so wounded, but are… Continue reading
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Upcoming climate change summit could be decisive By Teo Ballve
An upcoming grassroots summit on climate change in Bolivia could mark a pivotal event in the fight against global warming. In response, Bolivia is hosting the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth from April 19-22 in the city of Cochabamba. Around 15,000 people from across the globe are expected… Continue reading
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Call by Evo Morales for Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights
Call by Evo Morales for Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights Considering that climate change represents a real threat to the existence of humanity, of living beings and our Mother Earth as we know it today Continue reading
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Shambles in Copenhagen By Greg Albo
The turn to market environmentalism of so much of the environmental movement in North America has been in equal parts political and ecological disasters. This effort to form alliances with the capitalist classes and the state within the confines of neoliberalism has done nothing to advance solutions to the most crucial ecological issue of the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 