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Fuentes: Bolivia: Right-wing rebellion spurs left offensive
Znet Article, August, 27 2008
Federico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
The August 10 vote on the president, vive-president and eight out of nine prefects (governors) registered a historic 68% vote for Morales, an increase of 14% on the vote that brought him to power in December 2005...
Webber: Bolivia’s Post-Referendum Conjuncture
Znet Article, August, 18 2008
Jeffery r. Webber
Webber's ZSpace page
The period between 1946 and 1952 – under the regimes of Enrique Hertzog (1947-1949), Mamerto Urriolagoitia (1949-1951), and Hugo Ballivián (1951-1952) – came to be known as the sexenio. The era was marked by authoritarianism and repression in the ...
Weisbrot: Bolivia: Can The Majority of People Vote for Change and Actually Get It?
Znet Article, August, 15 2008
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Evo Morales changed the history of Bolivia when he was elected in December 2005 as the country's first indigenous president, and the first to get a majority of 54 percent. On Sunday he expanded his mandate considerably in a referendum, with 68 per...
Shultz: Bolivian President Evo Morales Wins Critical Referendum on His Presidency
Znet Article, August, 14 2008
Jim Shultz
Shultz's ZSpace page
More than 63 percent voted to back Morales' government - nearly ten points more than the 54 percent that elected him in December 2005. The recall pitted Morales against governors who have pushed for autonomy for their resource-rich provinces...
Lyubarsky: Bolivian Referendum Analysis
Znet Article, August, 13 2008
Andrew Lyubarsky
Lyubarsky's ZSpace page
For the Movimiento a Socialismo and Evo Morales, Sunday was indubitably a good day. After having won the Bolivian presidency in 2005 with approximately 54% of the popular vote, Evo surprised everyone by not only winning the recall referendum convo...
Benjamin: Bolivia Racked by Political Divisions on the Eve of a Recall Vote
Znet Article, August, 08 2008
Medea Benjamin
Benjamin's ZSpace page
On Sunday, August 10, Bolivians will go to the polls to vote on whether or not to recall the president, vice president and the governors of eight of the nation’s nine departments. Just 2½ years into the term of President Evo Morales, his governmen...
Fuentes: Bolivia Tensions
Znet Article, July, 28 2008
Federico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
On July 23 — one day after the right-wing opposition to Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, demanded a referendum on the controversial issue of the nation's capital — the sole magistrate remaining on the Constitutional Tribunal call...
Dangl: Total Recall in Bolivia: Divided Nation Faces Historic Vote
Znet Article, July, 24 2008
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
In early July in Sicaya, Cochabamba, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that if he wins the August 10 recall vote on his presidency, "I'll have two and half years left." But if he loses the vote, "I'll have to go back to the Chapare" to farm...
Morales: On the WTO's Round of Negotiations
Znet Article, July, 22 2008
Evo Morales
Morales's ZSpace page
First I must say that if it were so, all 153 member countries and in particular, the wide majority of developing countries should be the main actors in the WTO negotiations. But what we are seeing is that a handful of 35 countries are invited by ...
Fuentes: Bolivia
Znet Article, July, 21 2008
Federico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
With the victory of an unlikely opposition candidate in the June 29 election for prefect (governor) of Chuquisaca, the number of opposition-controlled prefectures increased to seven out of nine.
Lyubarsky: The Revolution on Hold – Departmental Autonomy and the Crisis of the Left in Bolivia
Znet Article, June, 30 2008
Andrew Lyubarsky
Lyubarsky's ZSpace page
When Evo Morales was elected the first indigenous president of Bolivia in 2005, he swept to power with a huge and unprecedented popular mandate, crushing his nearest opponent by a 25-point margin. The country’s traditional political classes were d...
Rada: Bolivia: Enron and Separatism
Znet Article, June, 09 2008
Andrés soliz Rada
Rada's ZSpace page
The decision of the Transredes company (the Shell -Ashmore group that took over from Enron) to hand over the expansion of their Villamontes gas pipeline to the departmental prefecture of Tarija, bypassing central government, demonstrates yet once ...
Rada: Bolivia: If we want to survive
Znet Article, May, 27 2008
Andrés soliz Rada
Rada's ZSpace page
If the autonomists and indigenists could agree on the responsibilities the national State should not renounce in order to carry on existing as such, the risk of Bolivia falling apart would largely disappear. Those responsibilities are foreign poli...
Hallinan: From Beirut to Bolivia, Ballots and Bullets
Znet Article, May, 25 2008
Conn Hallinan
Hallinan's ZSpace page
May has been a month of upheaval, from the streets of Beirut, where the Bush Administration appears to have miscalculated disastrously, to Santa Cruz Province in Eastern Bolivia, where a continent’s new political realignment is trying to checkmate...
Fuentes: Bolivia: Recall referendums open new struggle
Znet Article, May, 23 2008
Federico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
A new period of uncertainty has opened in Bolivia with the initiation of recall referendums for the president and prefects of Bolivia's nine departments by the opposition-controlled Senate.
Fuentes: Bolivia: Fraud, violence and mass resistance marks right-wing push
Znet Article, May, 11 2008
Federico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
The election of Morales came on the back of five years of intense social struggle by the combative indigenous and campesino movements, which gave birth to an alternative national project based on the demands of nationalisation of gas and a constit...
Hylton: US backs eastern seccession in Bolivia: Minority landholders vote for independence
Video, May, 10 2008
Forrest Hylton
Hylton's ZSpace page
Bolivia’s landowning eastern elite voted on Sunday for autonomy from President Evo Morales' central government.
Rada: Bolivia: The Encouraging Recovery of the National State
Znet Article, May, 06 2008
Andrés soliz Rada
Rada's ZSpace page
Beyond the economic advantages of public control over telecommunications and four oil companies, "capitalized" and privatized by neoliberalism, the recent decrees issued on May 1st offer a hopeful recovery of the national State. The Media Luna oli...
Burbach: United States maneuvers to carve up Bolivia with autonomy vote
Znet Article, May, 06 2008
Roger Burbach
Burbach's ZSpace page
The illegal referendum held on Sunday to declare autonomy in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s richest province, is backed by the Bush administration in an attempt to halt the leftward drift of South America. While the US embassy in La Paz blandly declares it...
Shykles: A Dutch Letterbox Could Cost Bolivia a Fortune
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Oliver Shykles
Shykles's ZSpace page
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...
