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Znet Article Hylton: Ghosts of October

Znet Article, November, 01 2004 Forrest Hylton
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The Last Czar On October 20, in revenge for Bolivian President Carlos Mesa’a approval of the “trial of responsibilities,” congressional representatives affiliated with former president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada’s ...

Znet Article Hylton: Bolivia's Gas Referendum

Znet Article, July, 20 2004 Forrest Hylton
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When Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez gave the signal for the propaganda onslaught -- accompanied, coincidentally, by paramilitary threats and harassment -- in favor of his referendum in October 2003 (in which 81% of the Colombian populati...

Znet Article Hylton: The Pacho Cortes Case

Znet Article, June, 13 2004 Forrest Hylton
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[Editor's Note: this article provoked a number of letters relating to some of the claims in it.  ZNet-Bolivia has published one of those letters here.] To start with good news, I was dead wrong: Claudi...

Znet Article Hylton: Law and Order in La Paz

Znet Article, May, 14 2004 Forrest Hylton
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During the past year or so, I've tried to describe the nature of the Beast in Bolivia, and in previous articles I've mentioned its hunger for a credible "terrorist" threat, which comes in the unlikely shape of a diminutive, fortyish man with a ree...

Znet Article Hylton: Chonchocoro

Znet Article, January, 18 2004 Forrest Hylton
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During Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada’s first administration, which emphasized the importance of foreign investment for Bolivian growth and development, Yerko Kukoc was Prefect of Potosí, and thus presided over the massacre, in November and D...

Znet Article Hylton: Empire and Revolution in Bolivia

Znet Article, December, 03 2003 Forrest Hylton
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"It's a utopia going in who knows what direction."Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, ex-President of Bolivia It is difficult, not to mention pointless, to resist being caught up in the tide of a revolutionary process on the capitalist periphery for the ...

Znet Article Hylton: Popular Insurrection And National Revolution:

Znet Article, October, 31 2003 Forrest Hylton
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“Slave driver/ the table has turned/ Catch a fire/ you’re gonna get burned” Bob Marley On October 17, the Day of National Dignity—which commemorates the greatest achievement of socialist martyr Marcelo Quiroga Santa...

Znet Article Hylton: War And Peace In Bolivia

Znet Article, October, 16 2003 Forrest Hylton
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“Like animals they kill us.  They come to surround us with planes and helicopters and tanks; not even animals are killed like this, there are children here …yet they’re entering people’s houses, to look for leaders....

Znet Article Hylton: Bolivia: Aymara Rebellion And Democratic Dictatorship

Znet Article, October, 13 2003 Forrest Hylton
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“We’re going to count up how much you owe us in back taxes since 1532! You’re just tenants! We’re the rightful owners of this country!… Since you can’t govern, give us back the power!… Let ...

Znet Article Hylton: Bolivia: Crisis And Opportunity

Znet Article, October, 03 2003 Forrest Hylton
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Describing the rising tide of mobilization against his government, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez Lozada—known in a previous incarnation as “the most intelligent neoliberal” in Latin America—put it succinctly: ...

Znet Article Hylton: Right Turns In South America?

Znet Article, August, 20 2003 Forrest Hylton
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Helicopters circling the city, combat planes roaring overhead; the streets, airports and public buildings patrolled by 13,000 police, soldiers, secret servicemen and spies, U.S. as well as Colombian. The arrival of Donald Rumsfeld in Bogotá on Au...

Znet Article Hylton: Terrorism & Political Trials in Bolivia

Znet Article, August, 06 2003 Forrest Hylton
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(The following article was originally written in Spanish for Pulso, a Bolivian newsweekly.) The background is as follows: in El Alto, an Aymara city of 700,000 on the upper edge of La Paz, at 6:30 AM on the morning of April 10, members of the Bo...

Znet Article Hylton: Dual Power Vanished

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Forrest Hylton
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"This is a worker-boss conflict."-Representative of the Bolivian Police As suddenly as it had materialized on the afternoon of February 12 in La Paz and El Alto*, dual power vanished on the afternoon of February 13.  On television, President...

Znet Article Hylton: Working-Class Revolt In Bolivia

Znet Article, February, 13 2003 Forrest Hylton
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Dual power has come to Bolivia most suddenly: not, as expected, in the form of a coordinated uprising of coca growers, highland Aymara peasants, and Quechua speaking peasants under the direction of Evo Morales, Felipe Quispe, and the Joint Chiefs ...

Znet Article Hylton: The Weight Of Forgetting

Znet Article, February, 03 2003 Forrest Hylton
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Though they are usually the first to speak in the name of tradition, Conservatives tend to ignore history when evaluating the present, and if anything has been missing in current debates about violence, democracy, human rights, and authoritarianis...

Znet Article Hylton: Left Turns In South America

Znet Article, January, 27 2003 Forrest Hylton
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"Instead of imitating Álvaro Uribe, Sánchez de Lozada should learn from Lula." Evo Morales Excepting Colombia, as "traditional" political parties and national economies disintegrate, South America has moved swiftly left i...

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