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- Friday, Aug 27, 2010
ZNet Article Miners in Potosí, Bolivia set off sticks of dynamite as cold winter winds zipped through the city, passing street barricades, protests, hunger strikers and an occupied electrical plant. These actions took place place from late July to mid-August a... -
- Monday, Aug 16, 2010
ZNet Article Indigenous Quechua protesters blockaded the main road between La Paz and Potosi on August 8. -
- Saturday, Aug 14, 2010
Book In the wake of the failed COP-15 in Copenhagen last December, Boliviaâ??s first indigenous president called for a World Peopleâ??s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC). Was this the necessary space for social movemen... -
- Tuesday, Aug 03, 2010
ZNet Article In spring 2000, the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia rose up against the privatization of their water, forcing out the US based corporation, Bechtel, and Bolivia’s neo-liberal government to back down. -
- Thursday, Jul 08, 2010
ZNet Article Bolivia’s UN ambassador gave this talk to the Shout Out for Global Justice, sponsored by the Council of Canadians and attended by nearly 3,000 people on June 25 in Toronto, during the ten days of protests against the G20 meeting. -
- Sunday, May 30, 2010
ZNet Article Under the presidency of Evo Morales, Bolivia has achieved a new constitution incorporating the rights of indigenous peoples, the beginning of land reform, the nationalization of important natural resources and increased state social spending to th... -
- Thursday, May 20, 2010
ZNet Article Perhaps no other sector better exemplifies the challenge the Bolivian government faces in lifting the country out of the poverty and dependency afflicting South America’s poorest nation than its all-important mining industry. -
- Monday, May 17, 2010
ZNet Article The tremendous success of the April 19-22 World Peoples Summit on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, has confirmed the well-deserved role of its initiator — Bolivian President Evo Morales — as one of the world’s le... -
- Friday, May 07, 2010
ZNet Article After last week’s climate summit in Bolivia, it is now possible for the governments to express the agenda of the social movements and the world’s most threatened peoples within the next official climate conference in Mexico. -
- Wednesday, Apr 28, 2010
ZNet Article Indegenous Peoples’ Declaration -
- Tuesday, Apr 27, 2010
ZNet Article It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to ma... -
- Friday, Apr 23, 2010
ZNet Article Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from E... -
- Monday, Apr 19, 2010
Commentary Message of the author of the Open Veins of Latin America to participants of the First World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba from April 19 to 22, as an alternative to the Copenhagen Cl... -
- Saturday, Apr 10, 2010
ZNet Article Although final figures will not be known until April 24, the results of Bolivia's April 4 regional elections have ratified the continued advance of the "democratic and cultural revolution" led by the country's first indigenous President Evo Morales. -
- Thursday, Apr 08, 2010
Commentary During the past decade Latin America has become a scene of hope and expectations as its leaders and social movements have raised the banner of 21st century socialism in a world ravished by imperial adventures and economic disasters. Proponents of ... -
- Sunday, Apr 04, 2010
ZNet Article An Introduction to and Commentary on the government of Bolivia’s Call for a ‘Peoples’ World Conference On Climate Change And The Rights Of Mother Earth’ -
- Wednesday, Mar 31, 2010
ZNet Article The Andean nations indigenous people have long resented the U.S. beverage company for usurping the name of their sacred coca leaf. Now, they are aiming to take back their heritage. Recently, the government of Evo Morales announced that it would ... -
- Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009
ZNet Article Democracy Now! interview with Evo Morales -- "We cannot end global warming without ending capitalism" -
- Saturday, Dec 12, 2009
ZNet Article Jeffery R. Webber interviews Bolivian ambassador to Canada, Edgar Tórrez Mosqueira -
- Tuesday, Dec 08, 2009
Commentary Bolivian President Evo Morales was re-elected on Sunday, December 6th in a landslide victory. After the polls closed, fireworks, music and celebrations filled the Plaza Murillo in downtown La Paz where MAS supporters chanted "Evo Again! Evo Again!... -
- Tuesday, Dec 01, 2009
ZMag Article Two new books on political transformations in the south -
- Friday, Nov 27, 2009
ZNet Article Despite major advances in land distribution in Bolivia, single, widowed and undocumented women in this South American country have little chances of owning rural lands due to the patriarchal traditions and customary practices of indigenous peoples... -
- Monday, Nov 02, 2009
ZNet Article International Climate Justice Tribunal Preliminary Hearing, Cochabamba, Bolivia 13th and 14th of October 2009 -
- Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009
ZNet Article Among the conventional wisdom that we hear everyday in the business press is that developing countries should bend over backwards to create a friendly climate for foreign corporations, follow orthodox (neoliberal) macroeconomic policy advice, and ... -
- Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009
Commentary If Obama was awarded the Nobel for winning the elections in a racist society despite his being African American, Evo deserves it for winning them in his country despite his being a native and his having delivered on his promises. - All Newest Content
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- Friday, Aug 27, 2010
ZNet Article Miners in Potosí, Bolivia set off sticks of dynamite as cold winter winds zipped through the city, passing street barricades, protests, hunger strikers and an occupied electrical plant. These actions took place place from late July to mid-August a... -
- Sunday, May 30, 2010
ZNet Article Under the presidency of Evo Morales, Bolivia has achieved a new constitution incorporating the rights of indigenous peoples, the beginning of land reform, the nationalization of important natural resources and increased state social spending to th... -
- Tuesday, Apr 27, 2010
ZNet Article It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to ma... -
- Friday, Apr 23, 2010
ZNet Article Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from E... -
- Saturday, Apr 10, 2010
ZNet Article Although final figures will not be known until April 24, the results of Bolivia's April 4 regional elections have ratified the continued advance of the "democratic and cultural revolution" led by the country's first indigenous President Evo Morales. -
- Saturday, Dec 12, 2009
ZNet Article Jeffery R. Webber interviews Bolivian ambassador to Canada, Edgar Tórrez Mosqueira -
- Monday, Nov 02, 2009
ZNet Article International Climate Justice Tribunal Preliminary Hearing, Cochabamba, Bolivia 13th and 14th of October 2009 -
- Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009
ZNet Article Among the conventional wisdom that we hear everyday in the business press is that developing countries should bend over backwards to create a friendly climate for foreign corporations, follow orthodox (neoliberal) macroeconomic policy advice, and ... -
- Thursday, May 07, 2009
ZNet Article In the brine under a crust of blindingly white salt in Uyuni, Bolivia, lies nearly 50 percent of the world’s lithium reserves. Best known as a tourist attraction, the Salar is gaining fame as batteries made with this scarce element catch the att... -
- Monday, Mar 16, 2009
ZNet Article Over 3,000 Bolivian and Peruvian indigenous activists recently marched in El Alto in commemoration of the March 13th, 1781 siege of La Paz, Bolivia launched from El Alto by indigenous rebels Tupac Katari and Bartolina Sisa. - All Featured ZNet
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- Saturday, Feb 07, 2009
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- Saturday, Jul 26, 2008
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- Tuesday, Dec 01, 2009
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- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
ZMag Article Theater activists from LA take drug war play to Bolivia -
- Thursday, May 01, 2008
ZMag Article The Netherlands has long been established as a place to do business and as more and more companies are finding out, all you need to do business there is little more than a letterbox. So what are the advantages of owning a letterbox in the Netherla... - All Bolivia ZMag
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- Monday, Sep 15, 2008
Video Bolivian President Evo Morales stated that he was expelling US ambassador Philip Goldberg for allegedly inciting violent opposition protests. The Bolivian leader did not offer specific evidence against Goldberg, but he has long accused the diploma... -
- Saturday, May 10, 2008
Video Bolivia’s landowning eastern elite voted on Sunday for autonomy from President Evo Morales' central government. -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Journalist Robert Fisk returns to the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Fisk recounts how Lebanese Christian militias who were under the control of the Israeli military murdered over 2000 Palestinians in the camps. Fisk also ... - All Bolivia Videos
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