24/10/07

Hold former president accountable
By Bolivia Rising(Bolivia Rising)
Marlene Rojas was 8 years old, one of five daughters born to Eloy Rojas and Etelvina Ramos in the indigenous Aymara town of Warisata , Bolivia . On Sept. 20, 2003 . a bullet entered through a window in the family’s home and into her …
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Community Organizing and Rebellion: Neighborhood Councils in El …
By Bolivia Rising(Bolivia Rising)
Women in traditional skirts and bowler hats discoursed eloquently on
the link between the lack of basic neighborhood services (including
cooking gas) and the role of transnational corporations in exploiting
Bolivia’s natural resources. …
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23/10/07

Evo's government has been hard core against US imperialism from the beginning, but the situation is not so simple. Evo told me that when he won the presidency and assumed office in January 2006, the CIA actually had its headquarters inside the Bolivian presidential palace! Now that's interference!! Of course, Evo kicked them out of the...
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US ambassador faces eviction from Bolivia: apologize or else
La Paz, 17/10/07 – The Bolivian government Tuesday threatened to evict the US ambassador as a “persona non grata” unless he apologizes for a satirical remark about moving Walt Disney’s headquarters somewhere else than the US. Philip Goldberg, the US official, got himself into hot water with a joke after Bolivia’s left-wing nationalist President Evo Morales called for the United Nations headquarters to be moved out of New York.
Goldberg quipped that according to that reasoning, it would not…
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Troops, residents fight for control of Bolivia’s busiest airport
Harold Olmos, Associated Press, 10/18/2007
Soldiers fired tear gas at angry residents who tried to storm Bolivia’s busiest airport Thursday as the facility became a focal point of an autonomy dispute between the federal government and the country’s wealthiest province.
Several hundred residents of the city and province of Santa Cruz attempted to crash through the gates of the Viru Viru airport, which was seized earlier in the day by the military.
Waving green-and-white Santa Cruz flags…
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18/10/07

Our 21st Century Zimmerwald
Phil Stuart Cournoyer, October 16th 2007
Managua, Nicaragua — Hugo Chávez’s October 14 Alo Presidente TV program, telecast live from Santa Clara (Cuba) is a historic turning point in the gathering showdown between the imperialist North and the popular upsurge taking place across the lands and islands of Abya Yala (the “Western” Hemisphere), the south of the Rio ‘Bravo’ and the infamous U.S. Border Wall.
As my 19 year-old granddaughter and I watched Hugo and Fidel, members of Che…
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We are all Santa Cruz II
Second statement by intellectuals, professionals and personalities from the city of Santa Cruz, October 8
Twenty-five years ago the people of Bolivia recovered their democracy in hopes of forging their life ideals, their dreams, rights, opportunities and effective institutions. But that democracy was hijacked by a succession of minorities that governed the country and devastated the economy, auctioned our natural resources, centralized and re-concentrated power with the active participation…
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15/10/07

A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples
Chimoré, Cochabamba, Bolivia, October 12, 2007
From the heart of South America, on this 12th day of October, 2007, the delegates of the indigenous first nations and peoples of the world, meeting in the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World”, to celebrate the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, hereby declare:
That, after 515 years of oppression and domination, here we stand; they have been unable…
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For a democracy that serves the people
Evo Morales
The fact that today we Bolivians are celebrating 25 years of democracy is thanks to the struggle, conviction, and tenacity of the Bolivian people and not to concessions by the political class. Historically, all of our democratic advances—from the universal vote in 1952, to the referendum of 2004 and the constituent assembly of 2006—have been accomplishments of the most marginalized sectors of society, those who have been constantly brutalized and scorned by those in power….
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14/10/07

Indigenous Struggle: The resistance continues
Amancay Colque, October 12, 2007
October 12th traditionally was celebrated as the anniversary of Columbus’ “discovery” of the Americas. For the indigenous peoples of the continent, this “discovery” meant hundreds of years of genocide and misery. Now the day has been reclaimed as the “Day of Indigenous Resistance” in Venezuela and Bolivia, two countries with presidents of indigenous descent who are refusing to toe Washington’s line.
Back in 1992, governments in Europe and…
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12/10/07

Evo Morales Announces end of Bolivian military training at School of the America
School of the Americas Watch, October 10, 2007
Bolivia is the fifth Latin American country to announce a withdrawal from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
Washington, DC – President Evo Morales announced Tuesday that Bolivia will gradually withdraw its military from training programs at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the School for the Americas (SOA). Bolivia is the fifth country after Costa Rica, Argentina,…
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11/10/07

Evo will create a global organisation of indigenous peoples
La Paz (EFE, La Prensa) – During the “International Encounter of the Indigenous Peoples of the World”, to be held on Friday October 12, the government of President Evo Morales will propose the articulation of a new organisation which will bring together indigenous people at the global level.
According to government spokesperson, Alex Contreras, the summit is seeking to “organise all the indigenous movements of the world”, as well as “elaborate a joint agenda” so that the…
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Viewpoint on Bolivia: A new nationalism
Rodrigo Vazquez, Director, Looking for the Revolution
After Che Guevara’s death in the Bolivian jungle, the military that executed him controlled the country’s indigenous population for 38 years.
They brutally suppressed dissent among civilians as they tried to impose capitalism in the Andes and finally turned this place into what it is now – a cocaine factory.
The Cold War in South America was financed through the arms and drugs trade, although few cases became as well known as the…
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Is Bolivia Cozying Up to Iran?
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, Time Magazine, Oct. 09, 2007
La Paz – Fresh from ruffling feathers and hogging headlines in New York, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last month got down to business in Latin America — specifically, the business of Tehran’s $17 billion economic agreements with Venezuela, and a new pact involving over $1 billion of trade and investment with Bolivia. The idea of Iran’s controversial President poking around in what had once been Washington’s backyard provoked…
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9/10/07

The Bolivian Bet
Guillermo Almeyra, October 7
Ferdinand Lassalle, a jurist and constitutional expert, said that the constitution is a piece of paper on the mouth of a canon. That is, only a favourable relationship of forces can approve or impose its compliance. In Bolivia, the Evo Morales government counts on an overwhelming majority support, given that the indigenous peoples and the poor have always been the grand majority, and now support the policies of their indigenous and popular government, confronted…
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8/10/07

The Constituent Assembly that could not be
Pablo Stefanoni, Pulso
Although prepared to “sweeten” its reforms, the government has not found a way to implement them. The dilemma of the “revolution in democracy” is still unresolved.
In three months Evo Morales will celebrate two years in the Palacio Quemado, Bolivia’s presidential office. His political standing remains high, with polls showing about 60% popular approval of his management.
This mass support for his leadership is somewhat independent of the government’s…
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Bolivia: Joining the ‘axis of evil’
Antonio Peredo Leigue
Bolivia’s right-wing continues to wage its campaign of opposition to the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government, led by the country’s first indigenous President Evo Morales. With the right having succeeded in forcing the temporary closure of the Constituent Assembly, entrusted with the task of drafting a constitution to “refound” Bolivia, the country finds itself on the verge of the definitive closure of this historic space, conquered by the indigenous and…
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6/10/07

Evo Morales declares himself an admirer of Che Guevara
Rosa Rojas, La Jornada
La Paz, October 2 – Bolivian President, Evo Morales, commented on Tuesday that he was an admirer of the mythical Argentine-Cuban guerrilla fighter Ernesto Guevara, although he pointed out that “the only difference I would have with Che is that he searched for equality, justice with a gun in his hand”.
During the press conference with foreign correspondents, Morales confirmed that he would attend the acts of commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the…
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5/10/07

Bolivia’s Evo Morales Wins Hearts and Minds in US
Deborah James and Medea Benjamin
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 American people. At public events and media appearances, Bolivia’s first-ever indigenous president reached out to the American people to dialogue directly on issues of democracy, environmental sustainability, and social and…
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4/10/07

“In order to live better sometimes you have to exploit, steal, discriminate, and plunder, but to live the good life is to live communally”
Central speech by the President of the Republic of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, at the 62nd Session of the United Nations (UN), addressing the environment. United Nations, 26 September, 2007
I would like to take this opportunity to express my extreme satisfaction over the election of the new General Secretary of the United Nations who will be leading this international organization for the good of humanity, and above all for the good of the abandoned and dispossessed.
That is why I wish..
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“Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity”
Speech by Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma during the United Nations meeting on Climate Change, New York, September 24, 2007 Thank you.
I would like greet the panel, and on behalf of the Bolivian peoples, I want to say that I am pleased that there is such a great gathering to debate global warming and climate change.
Today in our discussions, we must be very sincere and very realistic about the problems faced by our peoples, humanity and the entire planet.
I feel that we are not…
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