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Znet Article Rozental: Bolivia on the Brink

Znet Article, March, 05 2008 Manuel Rozental
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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 ...

Znet Article James: Bolivia's Evo Morales Wins Hearts and Minds in US

Znet Article, October, 02 2007 Deborah James
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  While Iranian President Ahmedinejad stole the headlines during the United Nations meeting last week in New York, Bolivia's President Evo Morales - a humble coca farmer, former llama herder and union organizer - stole the hearts of the Am...

Znet Article Chávez: Morales Gets Boost from UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights

Znet Article, September, 28 2007 Franz Chávez
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LA PAZ, Sep 19 (IPS) - President Evo Morales' dream of creating a "plurinational" state in Bolivia, with territorial and administrative autonomy for indigen...

Znet Article Dsp: Solidarity needed to defend Bolivia's revolution

Znet Article, September, 18 2007 Democratic socialist perspective -- Dsp
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The Democratic Socialist Perspective offers its solidarity to the people of Bolivia and the government of Evo Morales in the face of the campaign by US imperialism and the local oligarchy to overthrow the Morales government and destroy the process...

Znet Article Fuentes: Bolivia

Znet Article, August, 28 2007 Federico Fuentes
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Having come out of an intense period of political confrontation, including the biggest mobilisation in Bolivia's history, this landlocked country situated in the heart of rebellious South America seems on the verge of plunging into a new phase of ...

Znet Article Stefanoni: On the verge of a racial revenge?

Znet Article, June, 24 2007 Pablo Stefanoni
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Ever since the inauguration of Evo Morales, the right wing have begun to raise the spectre of a "racial revenge", supposedly promoted by the new government. Even Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa - who never loses an opportunity to attack "populi...

Znet Article Fuentes: The Battle For Bolivia's Future

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Federico Fuentes
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The breaking of a six-month deadlock in Bolivia's constituent assembly has paved the way for the opening of an intense debate on the future of this politically polarised country nestled in the heart of South America. Beginning to lose the battle w...

Znet Article Fernandes: Democracy and Constitutional Reform

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Sujatha Fernandes
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After gathering proposals during a six-week trip around the country, members of Bolivia's National Constituent Assembly met on April 30, 2007, to present the proposals and draft recommendations for synthesizing these proposals into a new constitut...

Znet Article Sader: The New Strategy of the Left

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Emir Sader
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The postgraduate course in Development Sciences (CIDES, UMSA [Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz]), the Colectivo Comuna and the Fundación por la Europa de los Ciudadanos [Foundation for a Citizens' Europe] organized the seminar "Pensar el ...

Znet Article Sader: The New Strategy of the Left

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Emir Sader
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The postgraduate course in Development Sciences (CIDES, UMSA [Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz]), the Colectivo Comuna and the Fundación por la Europa de los Ciudadanos [Foundation for a Citizens' Europe] organized the seminar "Pensar el ...

Znet Article Robledo: The FTA Between Colombia and the US Cannot be Salvaged

Znet Article, April, 21 2007 Jorge Robledo
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From March 26 to March 30, I visited Washington, DC, along with Iván Moreno Rojas, Senator of the Polo Democrático Alternativo (PDA-Alternative Democratic Party); Apecides Alvis, President of the Confederación de Trabajadores de Colombia (CTC-C...

Znet Article Ledebur: US Evaluation of Bolivian Drug Control Misleading and Inaccurate

Znet Article, April, 11 2007 Kathryn Ledebur
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US officials continue to cling to eradication figures and old yardsticks to evaluate Bolivia’s new approach to coca cultivation and drug control. The 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR)1 criticizes the Morales admi...

Znet Article Fernandes: A View from the Barrios

Znet Article, April, 07 2007 Sujatha Fernandes
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Published in LASA Forum, Winter 2007 The radical trajectory of president Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has been a highly controversial topic among Latin Americanists, democratization experts, policy makers, and activists. Some lament what they see as...

Znet Article Ledebur: The Shifting Weight of US Funding in Bolivia

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Kathryn Ledebur
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U.S. funding decisions on Bolivia, especially tied to drug control programs, have long shaped policy within South America’s poorest nation. In the past, the threat of funding cuts as a result of “decertification,” a decisio...

Znet Article Agee: The Descent of the US and Rise of Latin America

Znet Article, March, 19 2007 Philip Agee
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Anyone following the news in recent times cannot be unaware of the wave of progressive change sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean. For many lonely years Cuba held high the torch through its exemplary programs to provide universal health care ...

Znet Article Fernandes: Political Parties and Social Change

Znet Article, March, 19 2007 Sujatha Fernandes
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Since Hugo Chávez of Venezuela proposed the dissolution of the 24 parties that support his government and the formation of a single party on December 15, 2007, there has been much debate among the parties involved. According to Chávez, the propo...

Znet Article Zibechi: Let's All Stand With Cite Soleil

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Raúl Zibechi
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In less than two years the troops of MINUSTAH (Mission of the Nations United for the Stabilization of Haiti) perpetrated three massacres in Cite Soleil, an outlying slum of Port au Prince. According to numerous testimonies, barely mentioned by the...

Znet Article Chomsky: War, Neoliberalism and Empire in the 21st Century

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Noam Chomsky
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It's not very clear. What you said is correct. The law was not even seen by the Iraqi Parliament until it was finished, so it's an inside job. Exactly what this entails is still kind of open. It allows for Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) whic...

Znet Article Robinson: Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 William Robinson
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Keynote Presentation for “El Gran Paro Americano II” Immigrant Rights Conference, Feb 3-4 2007, Los Angeles It is an honor and a privilege to be here with you today, with the leaders and organizers of one of the most vital, just a...

Znet Article Burbach: Bush Trip to Counter Chavez is Destined to Fail

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Roger Burbach
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Bush's trip to Latin America is a calculated effort to counter Hugo Chavez's growing influence in the region and to separate the "bad left" from the "good left", namely Uruguay and to some extent Brazil. He hopes to add them to the dwindling bloc ...

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