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    • Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009
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      Democracy Now! interview with Evo Morales -- "We cannot end global warming without ending capitalism"
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    • Tuesday, Dec 08, 2009
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      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!...
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    • Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009
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      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 ...
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    • Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009
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      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.
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    • Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009
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    • Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009
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      Through the water war of April, 2000, the poor of the city and countryside of Cochabamba succeeded in expelling the multinational corporation which tried to charge them for this most basic common good. Between 2003 and 2005, the poor of the entire...
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    • Monday, Mar 16, 2009
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      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.
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    • Friday, Feb 27, 2009
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      With the Obama administration's policy toward Venezuela pretty much decided, and the embargo on Cuba considered untouchable because no one is willing to risk losing support among Cuban-Americans in the swing state of Florida, that leaves Bolivia a...
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    • Monday, Feb 09, 2009
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      Fog covered El Alto, Bolivia on Saturday morning as social movements from around the country marched into the city to mark the official passage of Bolivia's new constitution. "This is the second independence, the true liberation of Bolivia," Boliv...
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    • Tuesday, Feb 03, 2009
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      Five years ago, when Evo Morales was a rising political star as a congressman and coca farmer, I met him in his office in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He was drinking orange juice and sifting through the morning newspapers when I asked him about a meeting...
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    • Monday, Jan 26, 2009
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      After Bolivia's new constitution was passed in a national referendum on Sunday, thousands gathered in La Paz to celebrate. Standing on the balcony of the presidential palace, President Evo Morales addressed a raucous crowd: "Here begins a new Boli...
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    • Saturday, Jan 24, 2009
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      On Thursday, January 22, the last day of campaigning for the new constitution before the document is set to a vote on Sunday, January 25th, representatives from Bolivia’s diverse social movements convened in downtown La Paz. The rally, located i...
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    • Thursday, Jan 22, 2009
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      Dozens of marches and rallies in support of Bolivia's new constitution, to be voted on this Sunday, have filled the streets of the La Paz in recent days. On Tuesday, at a rally for the constitution and to celebrate Venezuela's donation of 300 tons...
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    • Monday, Jan 19, 2009
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      In the morning on Sunday, January 18, after a heavy rain fell on La Paz, Bolivia, the sun came out, drying the umbrellas of thousands of marchers winding through the city streets. The mobilization was in support of a new constitution which is to b...
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    • Tuesday, Jan 06, 2009
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      I wonder if, centuries from now, Che Guevera will be looked upon by people around the world in the way Jesus of Nazareth is looked upon by billions today, as a model for how one lives one's life.
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    • Thursday, Nov 20, 2008
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      Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.
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    • Saturday, Oct 25, 2008
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      Few books inspire not only imagination but also the desire for a new and better world. The compilation of essays Chris Spannos edited in Real Utopia achieves just that.
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    • Thursday, Oct 23, 2008
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      After months of street battles and political meetings, a new draft of the Bolivian constitution was ratified by Congress on October 21. A national referendum on whether or not to make the document official is scheduled for January 25, 2009.
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    • Friday, Oct 03, 2008
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      There is a struggle underway in Bolivia which has been largely overlooked or misrepresented in the mainstream circles in the USA. For the first time ever in Bolivia, the majority of the population exercises its rights as fully recognized citizens ...
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    • Monday, Sep 29, 2008
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      During the past decade, Latin America has become the most exciting region of the world. The dynamic has very largely flowed from right where you are meeting, in Caracas, with the election of a leftist president dedicated to using Venezuela’s rich ...
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    • Saturday, Sep 20, 2008
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      Background to recent events in Bolivia.
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    • Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008
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      Mérida, September 16, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the leaders of 11 other South American nations held an emergency meeting of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in Santiago, Chile, Monday to form a ...
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      Newsweek's Michael Miller recently interviewed CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot regarding the situation in Bolivia, where violence by right-wing groups, in conjunction with opposition prefects and politicians, claimed the lives of dozens of people a...
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    • Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008
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      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 com...
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    • Monday, Sep 15, 2008
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      Bolivia's popular movements are attempting to use democracy and a legitimate government to advance an agenda of sovereignty, greater equality, and development. Their opponents, led by several governors of the wealthier provinces in a part of the c...
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