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Dangl: The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
Book, July, 22 2009
Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
Zibechi: Cochabamba
Znet Article, July, 21 2009
Raúl Zibechi
Zibechi's ZSpace page
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...
Howard: The Battle Over Bolivia’s Lithium and the Future of Energy
Znet Article, May, 07 2009
April Howard
Howard's ZSpace page
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...
Buxton: Why are top Democrats protecting Bolivia's former president from facing trial for the massacres he ordered?
Znet Article, April, 16 2009
Nick Buxton
Buxton's ZSpace page
Top Democratic Party pollster Stanley Greenberg has been busy on the talk circuit recently promoting his latest book, Dispatches from the War Room – In the trenches with five extraordinary leaders (2009, St. Martin’s Press). The slight, bespec...
Dangl: Decolonization's Rocky Road: Corruption, Expropriation and Justice in Bolivia
Znet Article, March, 16 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
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.
Weisbrot: Can the US and Bolivia Get Along?
Znet Article, February, 27 2009
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
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...
Carlsen: A New Attitude in the White House?
Znet Article, February, 22 2009
Laura Carlsen
Carlsen's ZSpace page
There are early signs of change in the Obama State Department. In response to significant political victories by former Bush nemeses Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia, State Department spokespersons praised the democratic process...
Dangl: Bolivia: Morales Enacts New Constitution in El Alto
Commentary, February, 09 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
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...
Dangl: Latin America Breaks Free: Washington no longer calls the shots
Znet Article, February, 03 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
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...
Dangl: Bolivia Looking Forward: New Constitution Passed, Celebrations Hit the Streets
Znet Article, January, 26 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
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...
Dangl: Bolivia: After Rallies for New Constitution, Morales Nationalizes Oil Company
Znet Article, January, 24 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
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...
Dangl: Spilling Ink Instead of Blood: Bolivia Poised to Vote on New Constitution
Znet Article, January, 22 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
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...
Dangl: Si o No? Bolivians Mobilize for National Vote on New Constitution
Znet Article, January, 19 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
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...
Glick: Che & Gaza
Commentary, January, 06 2009
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
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.
Chatterjee: Mission Accomplished: How Bolivia Defeated Illiteracy
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Supriyo Chatterjee
Chatterjee's ZSpace page
The government of Evo Morales has achieved in three years what the regimes of the past two centuries could not: freeing Bolivia from the shame of illiteracy. With this, the second poorest nation in Latin America after Haiti becomes only the third ...
Morales: Save the planet from capitalism
Znet Article, December, 10 2008
Evo Morales
Morales's ZSpace page
President of Bolivia addressing climate change...
Goodman: A View From the South
Znet Article, November, 20 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
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.
Burbach: The United States: Orchestrating a Civic Coup in Bolivia
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Roger Burbach
Burbach's ZSpace page
livian President Evo Morales is visiting the United Nations and the Organization of American States this week to report on the recent US coup attempt against his government. He will also meet with members of Congress to deal with “the worst diplom...
Fuentes: Bolivia: US intervention exposed
Znet Article, November, 04 2008
Federico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
Tensions continue to grow between the US and Bolivia as more evidence comes to light of the former's role in stoking right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales.
Fuentes: Bolivia: 'The people will decide'
Znet Article, October, 30 2008
Federico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
Sitting in his office, covered with posters of Bolivian President Evo Morales, who also presides over the six federations, Salazar explained "no matter what happens, no matter what they say, no matter what it costs, the new constitution has to be ...
