28/11/07

Regional leaders call for strikes in six Bolivian provinces
AFP -
SUCRE, Bolivia (AFP) -- Regional leaders have called for a general strike in six Bolivian provinces, to protest a planned constitutional reform that would ...
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qM5jodqcLTnnPVugzqS7A49aj76v8IA

World Briefing | The Americas Bolivia: Opposition Calls Strike
New York Times - United States
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Opposition leaders in six of Bolivia's nine provinces, including Santa Cruz, the country's economic powerhouse, called a 48-hour ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/world/
americas/28briefs-bolivia.html?ref=world

Bolivia: Writing For Indymedia
By Eduardo Avila
Mario Duran of Palabras Libres [es] writes about a correspondence exchange with member of Indymedia Bolivia regarding articles that Duran contributed that may not be in agreement with the positions of the collaborative website. …
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/
11/28/bolivia-writing-for-indymedia/

Bolivia on strike
By manpares
evo.jpg Six of the nine provinces of Bolivia will go on strike on Wednesday due to an approval oa new Constitution that was voted last Saturday by a constituent assembly in Sucre. (more…)
southclips.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/bolivia-on-strike/

Bolivia’s opposition regions call general strike – Reuters
Bolivia’s opposition regions call general strikeReuters – 5 hours agoBy Carlos Quiroga LA PAZ, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Opposition leaders who control six of Bolivia’s nine provinces called a general strike for Wednesday in their latest …
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39-s-opposition-regions-call-general-strike-reuters.html

Bolivia’s opposition regions call general strike
Reuters – USA
By Carlos Quiroga LA PAZ, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Opposition leaders who control six of Bolivia’s nine provinces called a general strike for Wednesday in their …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN27526957

Bolivian mining tax reforms endorsed by Coeur d’Alene Mines
Mineweb – London,England,UK
Bolivia’s new tax code has come into force, with Coeur d’Alene mines CEO, Dennis Wheeler, welcoming the proposals as bringing certainty in mining taxes. …
www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mi
neweb/en/page34?oid=40697&sn=Detail

BOLIVIA: Threat of ‘Secession’ from the East
IPS – Italy
By Franz Chávez SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, Nov 27 (IPS) – The protests against the draft constitution approved by Bolivian President Evo Morales’
supporters in …
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40242

Bolivia: Police Back to Sucre, Says Govt.
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
La Paz, Nov 27 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivian Government ordered the return of police forces to southern Sucre on Tuesday, scene of riots and attacks on …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BCC16340
5-9C2E-4A88-982F-086CAFD0C1BC%7D&language=EN

Six of Bolivia’s richest provinces on protest strike
MercoPress – Montevideo,Uruguay
Six of Bolivia’s nine provinces, which hold 80% of the country’s wealth, have called a 48 hours general strike for Wednesday in protest at a new draft …
www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=11987&formato=HTML

Six of Bolivia’s richest provinces on 48 hours protest strike
Six of Bolivia’s richest provinces on 48 hours protest strike Six of Bolivia’s nine provinces, which hold 80% of the country’s wealth, have called a 48 hours general strike for Wednesday in protest at a new draft constitution. The stri. …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboar
d.php?az=view_all&address=102x3080332

Radio Report: Protests in Bolivia Over New Constitution Leave Four …
At least four people have died in violent confrontations in Sucre, Bolivia, where the framework for a new constitution was…
www.towardfreedom.com/home/index.php?opt
ion=com_content&task=view&id=1177&Itemid=0

27/11/07

US Statement Against Violence In Sucre, Bolivia
We deplore the violence in Sucre, Bolivia that claimed at least three lives during the weekend of November 23, stemming from Constituent Assembly deliberations on Bolivia’s proposed new constitution. Democratic governments have the …
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0711/S01156.htm

Bolivia: Widening Fissures Threaten to Split
Stratfor (subscription) – USA
Pressure stemming from Bolivian President Evo Morales’ draft constitution could be too much for the already fractured Bolivia to bear. Stability in Bolivia …
www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=298927

Councillor targets Bolivia in “clipboard travels”
GazetteLive – Middlesbrough,UK
Cllr Michna and Janet are now about to embark on their most adventurous trip so far with a visit to Bolivia’s capital La Paz – the world’s highest capital. …
www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2007/11
/27/councillor-targets-bolivia-in-clipboard-travels-84229-20166222/

Bachelet’s trip to Bolivia is still set to go ahead despite …
El Mercurio OnLine (Chile) – Chile
Despite incidents during the last few days that have taken the lives of four people in Bolivia, President Michelle Bachelet’s upcoming trip, …
www.emol.com/noticias/ingles/detall
e/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=283274

Bolivia: Departments Call For Strike
Stratfor (subscription) – USA
Governors and civil sectors in five of Bolivia’s nine departments (Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni, Pando and Cochabamba, which make up the opposition) reunited …
www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=298917

A feat of Cuban science
Granma International – La Habana,Cuba
A work team led by Doctor Jorge González Pérez, director of the Institute of Legal Medicine at the time, traveled progressively to Bolivia in late 1995, …
www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/noviembre/mar27/48proeza.html

Links: EPA Emissions, DigitalGlobe, Bolivia Protected Areas
By Frank Taylor of Google Earth Blog
Bolivia Protected Areas – A Google Earth Community member named ‘maartenzam’ has posted an excellent KML file showing the protected environmental areas in Bolivia (in Spanish). Bolivia has some of the most diverse plant and animal life …
www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/11/
links_epa_emissions_digitalglobe_bo.html

Ban Ki-Moon Voices Concern About Violent Confrontations in Bolivia
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced concern over recent violent confrontations as the Bolivian Constituent Assembly meets in the southern city of Sucre.
newsblaze.com/story/20071127060825tsop.
nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html

Four dead after violent clashes in Bolivia
“In order to strengthen democracy and respect for human rights in Bolivia, the secretary general urges all political and social actors to remain calm, to abstain from using violence and to seek a consensus on the pressing issues …
www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2007-11-27&ID=209750

Protests Continue in Bolivia
By Dr. Steven Taylor
Via the BBC: Bolivia opposition calls strike. Opposition leaders in six of Bolivia’s nine provinces have called a general strike for Wednesday in protest at a new draft constitution. At least four people died in the city of Sucre over …
www.poliblogger.com/?p=12887

Bolivia opposition calls strike
BBC News – UK
Opposition leaders in six of Bolivia’s nine provinces have called a general strike for Wednesday in protest at a new draft constitution. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7114506.stm

Four dead after violent clashes in Bolivia
AFP –
SUCRE, Bolivia (AFP) — A semblance of order returned to Sucre Monday after four people died in a weekend of violent protests over the constitutional reforms …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jT1G8BEtjR0QkOxuQjX8rWsc7NHw

Crown Heights, France; Caracas, Bolivia
Reason Online – Los Angeles,CA,USA
In Bolivia’s political capital of Sucre, protesters rioted after allies of President Evo Morales, in a nod to the December 2 vote in Caracas, …
reason.com/blog/show/123655.html

Bolivia: Conflicts in Sucre Over New Constitution
By Mario Duran
… campesinos que creyeron que no era necesario sesionar en un cuartel y aprobar una constitución hecha entre fusiles como se hacía en las dictaduras que tanto golpearon y dañaron a Bolivia, estudiantes que apenas tienen para comer. …
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/11/26/
bolivia-conflicts-in-sucre-over-new-constitution/

26/11/07

The Final Battle in Bolivia
By Bolivia Rising(Bolivia Rising)
Evo Morales, the first Indian president of Bolivia, is forcing a showdown with the oligarchy and the right wing political parties that have stymied efforts to draft a new constitution to transform the nation. He declares, “Dead or alive …
boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/11/final-battle-in-bolivia.html

Crown Heights, France; Caracas, Bolivia
By mmoynihan@reason.com (Michael C. Moynihan)
In Bolivia’s political capital of Sucre, protesters rioted after allies of President Evo Morales, in a nod to the December 2 vote in Caracas, passed a preliminary bill through parliament that would undo constitutional limits on …
www.reason.com/blog/show/123655.html

Bolivia: Goodbye to Oscar Sanchez
By Eduardo Avila
Alberto Medrano of El Alto Noticias [es] says farewell to Bolivian football player Oscar Sanchez, who recently passed away due to liver cancer.
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/11/
26/bolivia-goodbye-to-oscar-sanchez/

UN chief concerned about escalating violence in Bolivia
Xinhua – China
26 (Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was concerned about recent
violence in Bolivia, UN spokesperson Michele Montas said Monday. …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/27/content_7150433.htm

Coeur d’Alene Mines praises Bolivia Congress vote on mining tax code
CNNMoney.com – USA
In addition, Coeur said payments under Bolivia’s complementary mining tax
will now be deductible for tax purposes rather than creditable against
income …
money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/art
icles/newstex/AFX-0013-21231678.htm

Bolivia’s Morales defiant after protests kill three
Reuters – USA
Morales has made rewriting the constitution a pillar of his reform agenda,
but the issue has deepened Bolivia’s ethnic and regional divisions. …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN26413932

Is Bolivia’s press freedom under attack
International Journalist's Network – USA
Recent reports by media watchdogs say Bolivia ‘s press has been curtailed
and accuse the government of not accepting a variety of thoughts. …
www.ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Article&ID=306949&LID=1

Bolivia: Constitutional draft approved
By Erwin C.(Taylor Kirk)
Bolivia’ constitutional assembly agreed to a new draft constitution yesterday. The legislature met yesterday at a military school in the colonial capital of Sucre amidst high security and boycotts by opposition politicos. …
ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2007/11/b
olivia-constitutional-draft-approved.html

Four dead after violent clashes in Bolivia
Times of India – India
SUCRE: A Bolivian protester died early on Monday after being injured in
clashes with police over the weekend, local officials said, raising the
death toll …
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Four_dead_after
_violent_clashes_in_Bolivia/articleshow/2573086.cms

Bolivia crash kills BBC reporter
BBC News – UK
A BBC journalist working in Bolivia has been killed in a car crash to the
south of the main city of La Paz. Lola Almudevar was travelling in a taxi
in the …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7112875.stm

Morales Leads March in Bolivia
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
La Paz, Nov 26 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo Morales joined Monday
the group of farmers who are marching for several days in support of social
…
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BD47BB
EC6-A57A-4AC9-9E11-F7CED092539B%7D)&language=EN

Jindal Steel gets nod for iron ore mining in Bolivia
Moneycontrol.com – Mumbai,India
The company finally got the go ahead for iron ore mining in Bolivia this
weekend. CNBC-TV18 analysis expects a price increase of 30-50% in iron-ore
in FY08; …
www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/business/jindal-
steel-gets-nod-for-iron-ore-miningbolivia/16/05/314587

Hot spots: News from around the world
Chicago Sun-Times – United States
SUCRE, Bolivia — Riots convulsed Bolivia’s colonial capital Sunday after
allies of President Evo Morales approved the framework for a constitution
that …
www.suntimes.com/news/world/667271,CST-NWS-hot26.article

Violence in Bolivia over Constitutional Changes
By Dr. Steven Taylor
Via the BBC: Bolivia clashes leave three dead.
www.poliblogger.com/?p=12880

Violent Protests Against Constitutional Change in Bolivia
By Dinka
Protesters angry with the Bolivian government’s efforts to rewrite the country’s constitution have taken to the streets in violent demonstrations in Sucre that killed at least three people including a police officer.
www.huliq.com/43065/violent-protest
s-against-constitutional-change-bolivia

Bolivia’s constituional reform forced through
By boz(boz)
The MAS delegates for Bolivia’s constitutional assembly convened inside of a military base. While the constitution was supposed to be pushed through my 2/3 majority, with few opposition parties present, MAS changed a number of the rules …
bloggingsbyboz.blogspot.com/2007/11/b
olivias-constituional-reform-forced.html

Mineral Royalties Watch (Bolivia)
By Cho
Reuters are reporting some interesting developments in Bolivia, where the Bolivia’s Congress approved a reform to the mining tax code late on Friday that will substantially increase taxes on mining companies operating in the South …
zambian-economist.blogspot.com/2007/11
/mineral-royalties-watch-bolivia.html

Three people killed in riots in Bolivia
The demonstrators want Sucre to be the only capital of Bolivia, and not La Paz which is a stronghold of President Morales . In August, political negotiations came to a standstill after days of protests by Morales’ supporters, …
www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/
5532642/Three-people-killed-in-riots-in-Bolivia

Sucre riots test Morales’ resolve for change in Bolivia
By Derek Barry(Derek Barry)
Land redistribution has been a key issue in Bolivia for the last fifty years. Morales’s Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party made a comprehensive agrarian reform plan a central plank of the new constitution. Morales and MAS is trying …
nebuchadnezzarwoollyd.blogspot.com/2007/
11/sucre-riots-test-morales-resolve-for.html

Deadly riots shake Bolivia over pro-Morales constitution …
Peninsula On-lineDeadly riots shake Bolivia over pro-Morales constitutionInternational Herald Tribune – 6 hours agoAP SUCRE, Bolivia: Riots convulsed Bolivia’s colonial capital Sunday after allies of President Evo Morales approved the …
news.originalsignal.com/article/586123/deadly-riots-shake-
bolivia-over-pro-morales-constitution-international-herald-tribune.html

Death and Sedition in Bolivia
By lucho
… parties—defeated from almost every angle by the social movements over the past few years—were allowed new breathing room and maintained, together with the governing party, its monopoly of the political representation in Bolivia. …
latinlasnet.org/node/160

Bolivia: Protestors Clash With Police, Storm a Jail
Bolivian protesters clash with police, storm jail. Sun Nov 25, 2007 20:18pm…
www.emergency.com/archive/11-01-2007_11-30-2007.htm#363

Deadly riots shake Bolivia over pro-Morales constitution
International Herald Tribune – France
AP SUCRE, Bolivia: Riots convulsed Bolivia’s colonial capital Sunday after
allies of President Evo Morales approved the framework for a new
constitution …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/26/a
merica/LA-GEN-Bolivia-Constitution-Protest.php

Bolivian constitution protestors set fire to jail, prisoners escape
Waterloo Record – Waterloo,Ontario,Canada
AP AP Inmates of the San Roque jail escape from the prison during clashes
in Sucre, Bolivia, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A riot
police …
news.therecord.com/News/BreakingNews/article/274301

Katrina-damaged cars flooding market?
Dubuque Telegraph Herald – Dubuque,IA,USA
By Dan Keane AP COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — The bathtub ring of mold on the
ceiling of Colleen mcgaw’s Mini Cooper marks how high Hurricane Katrina’s
floodwaters …
www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=181278

In Memoriam: Lola Almudevar
The Democracy Center – Cochabamba,Cochabamba,Bolivia
Events, and violence, are unfolding quickly in Sucre, the site of
Bolivia’s combative Constituent Assembly. We will certainly be providing
coverage of these …
www.democracyctr.org/blog/2007/
11/in-memoriam-lola-almudevar.html

WORLD at 0400GMT
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) – Wien,Austria
Deadly riots shake Bolivia over New: VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA. Chavez says
relations with Colombia ‘in the freezer. WASHINGTON _ Arab holdout Syria
agrees to …
www.pr-inside.com/world-at-0400gmt-r316671.htm

Bolivia: Tension in Sucre Remains
By Eduardo Avila
Based in Sucre, Bolivia, Ciudad de Patas [es] continues the updates from various local sources. In addition to reports that citizens have taken control of the local airport and departmental police station, he is requesting photographs …
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/
11/25/bolivia-tension-in-sucre-remains/

Police, protesters clash over Bolivia’s capital
SUCRE, Bolivia (Reuters) – Protesters armed with clubs and stones clashed with police in southern Bolivia on Saturday in demonstrations demanding the full relocation of the country’s government to Sucre from La Paz. …
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ters_clash_over_Bolivia_s_capital