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Dangl: New Politics in Old Bolivia: Public Opinion and Evo Morales
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
Nearly two years into the presidency of Evo Morales, government officials and leftist social organizations are determined to break with the past and transform the nation. The opposition calls it a civil war. The government calls it a revolution. O...
Morales: Bolivia’s President Urges Development Of Economic System Based On ‘How To Live Well
Znet Article, April, 23 2008
Evo Morales
Morales's ZSpace page
Offers ‘10 Commandments’ to Counter World’s ‘Unbridled’ Development Model; Secretary-General: Indigenous Have First-Hand Knowledge about Climate Change Impact
Rada: Bolivia: Indigenous People and Mestizos
Znet Article, April, 17 2008
Andrés soliz Rada
Rada's ZSpace page
Setting indigenous people against mestizos in a country like Bolivia is to betray one's country. It is as absurd as trying to separate red blood corpuscules from white ones while trying to keep the body alive. Our independent life was born from th...
Rozental: Bolivia on the Brink
Znet Article, March, 05 2008
Manuel Rozental
Rozental's ZSpace page
Bolivia is on the brink of civil war. With a popular government attempting to put forward a new constitution and an elite intent on blocking change, or failing that separating the resource-rich part of the country from the rest, events are moving ...
Fernandes: The Trajectory of Indigenous Politics in Latin America
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Sujatha Fernandes
Fernandes's ZSpace page
On Monday January 28, Bishop Alejandro Goic announced that the Mapuche rights activist Patricia Troncoso was calling off a 111 day hunger strike in Chile. Troncoso, along with several other strikers, was demanding the release of Mapuche political ...
Weisbrot: Is Washington Undermining Democracy in Bolivia?
Znet Article, February, 19 2008
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
This week's news that the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia has repeatedly asked Peace Corps volunteers and then a Fulbright Scholar to spy on people there is much more serious that it has so far been treated. In fact, together with other activities funded ...
Carlsen: Why Bolivia Matters
Znet Article, February, 15 2008
Laura Carlsen
Carlsen's ZSpace page
Bolivia's National Palace is a classic colonial building that sits on the pigeon-filled Plaza Murillo in downtown La Paz. It's more often called the "Palacio Quemado" or "Burned Palace" because it's been set on fire repeatedly by dissidents of one...
Prieto mahaney: Repetitive Media
Znet Article, February, 11 2008
Orlando omar Prieto mahaney
Prieto mahaney's ZSpace page
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Dangl: Undermining Bolivia
Znet Article, February, 08 2008
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
A thick fence, surveillance cameras, and armed guards protect the U.S. Embassy in La Paz. The embassy is a tall, white building with narrow slits of windows that make it look like a military bunker. After passing through a security checkpoint, I s...
Kozloff: Hugo Chávez’s Coca Fix
Znet Article, February, 07 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
Kozloff's ZSpace page
Chávez’s stimulant of choice is coffee. A year and a half ago, I saw him speak at Cooper Union in New York...
Jacobs: The Horizons of History
Znet Article, January, 27 2008
Ron Jacobs
Jacobs's ZSpace page
Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson's newest book, Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics, covers this revolutionary upsurge from a leftist perspective that goes beyond Marxism as it is academically understood and places the...
Rada: Bolivia and Brazil, Hydrocarbons in 2008
Znet Article, January, 23 2008
Andrés soliz Rada
Rada's ZSpace page
On confirming his visit to La Paz, Lula said Bolivian gas would resolve the energy problems of his country and of Argentina and Chile. When Bolivian gas exports began in July of 1999, ex-President of Brazil Henrique Cardoso, after meeting with Hug...
Mitterrand: Open Letter to European Leaders: Bolivian Democracy in Mortal Danger
Znet Article, January, 04 2008
Danielle Mitterrand
Mitterrand's ZSpace page
Just as Europe has learnt and cruelly paid for it, democracy needs to be ceaselessly alive, reinvented and defended as much in our democratic countries as in the rest of the world. No democracy is an island. Democracies should assist one another. ...
Dangl: Fear and Loathing in Bolivia: New Constitution, Polarization
Znet Article, January, 04 2008
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
Two major developments marked the close of the year in Bolivia: the passage of a new constitution and the worsening of political polarization in the country. The new constitution reflects the socialistic policies advocated by indigenous president ...
Webber: Bolivian Horizons: an Interview with Historian Sinclair Thomson
Znet Article, December, 13 2007
Jeffery r. Webber
Webber's ZSpace page
The way we’ve conceived of it, the three revolutionary moments would be, first of all, the indigenous anti-colonial revolution that took place in the late 18th century, in 1780 and 1781.
Fuentes: Bolivia: 'A Project For The Liberation Of The Poor’
Znet Article, December, 13 2007
Federico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
“Here in Bolivia, the majority have realised that the neoliberals have always betrayed us. Now the people cannot be so easily bought off, there is growing consciousness and a shift in the attitude of society. That is why it will be difficult for [...
Burbach: The Final Battle in Bolivia
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
Roger Burbach
Burbach's ZSpace page
Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linares states, “Either we now consolidate the new state…with the new dominant forces behind us, or we will move backwards and the old forces will again predominate.” A leading trade union leader, Edgar Patana, put it ...
Trigona: Plan Condor: Crimes without borders in Latin America
Znet Article, December, 07 2007
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
he United States and Latin American military governments developed Operation Condor as a a transnational, state-sponsored terrorist coalition among the militaries of South America. In Argentina alone some 30,000 people were disappeared as result, ...
Dangl: New Politics in Old Bolivia: Public Opinion and Evo Morales
Znet Article, November, 30 2007
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
Nearly two years into the presidency of Evo Morales, government officials and leftist social organizations are determined to break with the past and transform the nation. The opposition calls it a civil war. The government calls it a revolution. O...
Fisk: Palestinian Massacre at Sabra and Shatila
Video, October, 23 2007
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
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 ...
