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Archived News Links
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News Links 1-12 AUGUST 2005 | News Links 14-30 JULY 2005 | News Links 1-13 JULY 2005
News Links 13-30 JUNE 2005 | News Links 1-13 JUNE 2005 | News Links 18-31 May 2005
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2008
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January
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Bolivia Rising
Breakthroughs on common goods and constitutional reform By Éric Toussaint, 30 January 2008 |
| 19/1/08 |
Those who were supposed to be ruled are ruling now
Beatriz Souviron, Bolivia's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, explains the essence of the changes currently taking place in Bolivia. |
| 18/1/08 |
The Pimping of Black America: Why Much of the Corporate Media Supports Barack Obama By Larry Pinkney |
| 18/1/08 |
Interview with Bolivian Vice President Garcia: ‘Political crisis’ a media beat-up By Pablo Stefanoni, La Paz 18 January 2008 |
| 20/1/08 |
Bolivia News-links 7-20 January 2008 |
| 18/1/08 |
Bolivia: New constitution sparks right-wing revolt By Rachel Evans, La Paz January 18, 2008 |
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Some Bolivians are torn between Morales & free trade By Terry Wade, Jan 14, 2008 |
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Bolivia's 'Bad Births' Sit on Political Sidelines By Jean Friedman Rudovsky, WeNews correspondent, Jan 16, 2008 |
| 11/1/08 |
Kucinich Requests Recount of New Hampshire Ballots 11/1/08 |
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Bolivia: Talks Hold Out Hope in Polarized Country
Franz Chávez, Thursday, 10 January 2008
(IPS) Bringing Bolivia’s four youngest and strongest sons back into the fold will not be an easy task for leftist President Evo Morales, who is attempting to keep a heavily polarised country together. |
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Bolivia Rising
Bolivia's deepening crisis Tom Lewis, January 11, 2008
THE LAST year has been a time of dramatically increased social polarization in Bolivia, setting the stage for decisive confrontations in 2008. |
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Why Bolivia Matters
Lauren Carlson, January 7 2008
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 stripe or another over the centuries since Bolivia gained its fragile independence. |
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Bolivia Rising 7/1/08
International sign-on statement to World Bank on Bolivia Investment Case
We are seeking organizational signatures for the letter below to the World Bank President.
The Emergence of Bolivia's Indigenous Movement (view video) |
| 4/1/08 |
`Why a Vote for Obama Is a Vote for the American Elite … and Why John Edwards Beats Them All’ |
| 4/1/08 |
`Obama … Mr. Hope One Day … and Mr. Compromise the Other’ … |
| 10/1/08 |
Bolivia News-links 1-10 January 2008 |
| 4/1/08 |
Ecuador News-links 1-4 January 2008 |
| 4/1/08 |
Bolivia News-links 1-4 January 2008 |
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2007
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December |
| 27/12/07 |
Ecuador News-links 24-27 December 2007 |
| 27/12/07 |
Bolivia News-links 24-27 December 2007 |
| 24/12/07 |
Bolivia News-links 22-24 December 2007 |
| 24/12/07 |
Ecuador News-links 21-24 December 2007 |
| 20/12/07 |
Bolivian states inch closer to self-rule as Morales urges talks
LA PAZ (AFP) — Four of Bolivia’s richest departments Monday said they will put their autonomy hopes to referendum votes, as President Evo Morales called for talks with the country’s nine governors in a bid to defuse rising tensions.
The energy-rich eastern departments of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando announced signature drives to get the legal quorum of 8.0 percent of their local populations behind referendums to approve their quest for greater autonomy, officially declared by state…
Break up of Bolivia planned by bosses
Several provinces of Bolivia have announced that they are to breakaway from the central state in protest against the left wing policies of the country’s leader Evo Morales. Mike Gonzalez assesses the threat
Ever since Evo Morales was elected to the presidency of Bolivia in late 2005, the country has lived through permanent tensions. It was only to be expected.
Morales was carried to power by a movement that, in the six previous years, had got rid of three presidents in the battle to…
Chavez sends a solidarity message from Venezuela to Bolivia
Montevideo, Dec 18 (ABN).- This country is going through a hard political situation, in which some opposition groups pretend to ignore governmental institutions and its Government. This message was sent by Chávez directly to his Bolivian counterpart, Evo Morales, this Tuesday, during the XXXIV Presidents and Associated States of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) Summit, which was carried out at the Plenarios Hall, in Montevideo, Uruguay. |
| 19/12/07 |
Ecuador News-links 12-19 December 2007 |
| 19/12/07 |
Bolivia News-links 16-19 December 2007 |
| 19/12/07 |
Bolivia News-links 12-15 December 2007 |
| 19/12/07 |
Bolivia News-links 5-11 December 2007 |
| 5/12/07 |
Bolivia News-links 4-5 December 2007 |
| 4/12/07 |
Bolivia News-links 4 December 2007 |
| 4/12/07 |
The Battle in Bolivia: ‘New Left’ President Evo Morales Faces Opposition to New Constitution
Roger Burbach, Dec 01, 2007 While international attention is focusing on President Hugo Chavez and the Sunday referendum on the Venezuelan constitution, a conflict that is just as profound is shaking Bolivia. Evo Morales, the first Indian president of the country, 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 I will have a new constitution for the country… |
| 3/12/07 |
Ecuador News-links 1-3 December 2007 |
| 3/12/07 |
Bolivia News-links 1-3 December 2007 |
November |
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| 30/11/07 |
Ecuador News-Links 29-30 November 2007 |
| 29/11/07 |
Bolivia News-links 29 November 2007 |
| 28/11/07 |
Ecuador News-Links 23-28 November 2007 |
| 28/11/07 |
Bolivia News-links 26-28 November 2007 |
| 28/11/07 |
Bolivia News-links 22-25 November 2007 |
| 28/11/07 |
Bolivia News-links 16-21 November 2007 |
| 28/11/07 |
Bolivia News-links 12-16 November 2007 |
| 12/11/07 |
Ecuador News-Links November 8-10 2007 |
| 12/11/07 |
Bolivia News-links 1-12 November 2007 |
| 12/11/07 |
Bolivia Rising Articles November-October 2007 |
| 6/11/07 |
Ecuador News-Links 1-8 November 2007 |
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October
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| 23/10/07 |
Ecuador News-Links 10-27 October |
| 23/10/07 |
Bolivia News-links 21-27/10/07 |
| 20/10/07 |
Bolivia News-Links 9-20 October |
| 9/10/07 |
Ecuador News-Links 1-9 October |
| 9/10/07 |
Bolivia News-Links 1-8 October |
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2006
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| 8/9/06 |
The revolutionary reawakening of Mexico By Alan Woods |
| 1/9/06 |
Chile’s Mining Strike at La Escondida has Ended, but the Nation’s Labor Struggle Continues |
| 2/8/06 |
Interview with Cuba’s Ricardo Alarcon |
| 17/8/06 |
The Cuban Mirage: Self-Deception in Miami and Washington |
| 15/8/06 |
Mexico: The Electoral Crisis Goes On |
| 14/8/06 |
Hugo Chávez’s Challenge to U.S. Preeminence in Latin America |
| 10/8/06 |
The Upcoming Nicaraguan Elections |
| 31/7/06 |
Cuba Comes in from the Cold |
| 20/7/06 |
Chávez Should Watch His Step at MERCOSUR Summit: Every Effort Should Be Made to Convince Uruguay and Paraguay to Stick with the Trade Pact |
| 18/7/06 |
U.S. Embargo against Cuba under Growing Siege |
| 26/6/06 |
The Importance of Being Ecuador, #10 S Artesian |
| 11/7/06 |
Mexican Election Still Far from Over, as the Plot Somewhat Thickens |
| 6/7/06 |
Nicaragua: Herty Lewites – The Death of a Good Man |
| 5/7/06 |
In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear: López Obrador Reduces Calderón’s Official Margin to 0.6 percent |
| 28/6/06 |
Washington’s Undeclared War Against Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez: The State Department Human Trafficking Report: Raw Ideology Rather Than Bona Fide Research |
| 29/6/06 |
Mexican Presidential Election: Battle Goes Down to the Wire, with Major Transformations in Store in the Wake of a Likely López Obrador Victory |
| 27/6/06 |
Fox Chooses U.S. Over Latin America, Continuing Mexico’s Accommodation to Washington’s Regional Primacy |
| 21/6/06 |
How the United States Continues to Manipulate Nicaragua’s Economic and Polical Future |
| 17/6/06 |
In Oaxaca Mega-March, 400,000 Send A Firm No to the Repression by Governor |
| 16/6/06 |
Bolivia NewsLinks 9-16 June 2006 |
| 16/6/06 |
Bolivia NewsLinks 1-8 June 2006 |
| 13/6/06 |
Thousands Mobilize in Los Angeles to Block the Total Destruction of the South Central Farm |
| 15/6/06 |
Massacre of Teachers in Mexico, 11 Dead |
| 15/6/06 |
Police Unleash Repression Against Oaxaca Teachers |
| 10/6/06 |
The Importance of Being Ecuador, 9 S Artesian |
| 8/6/06 |
A Quantum Leap for U.S.-Bolivian Relations |
| 8/6/06 |
Torture is Un-American: The SOA and its Devastating Legacy |
| 7/6/06 |
Welcome Madam Chilean President to Washington - Michelle Bachelet: Hurtling Toward 100 Days |
| 5/6/06 |
COHA REPORT ON THE MEXICAN ELECTIONS: Flirting with Danger: Mexican Presidential Campaign Grows Tense |
| 2/6/06 |
Latin America – The Path Away from U.S. Domination - Revised |
| 1/6/06 |
Peruvians Face a Difficult Choice: A Distressed Politician from the Past or an Unqualified Man of the Future |
| 31/5/06 |
No to Pascua Lama Open-cast mine in the Andean Cordillera on the Chilean-Argentine frontier. |
| 23/4/06 |
Return to Ecuador, 8 S. Artesian |
| 30/5/06 |
Latin America – The Path Away from U.S. Domination |
| 25/5/06 |
Uribe’s Race Against Himself |
| 22/5/06 |
Movement Towards a Mixed Economy in Latin America Quickens as Neoliberalism’s Eternal Verities Begin to Come Undone |
| 23/5/06 |
Cuba on the “Terrorist” List: Miami Rides Again |
| 17/5/06 |
State Department Looking for a Fight in which it Might get a Black Eye |
| 12/5/06 |
The U.S. and the EU: Arm Wrestling over Cuba |
| 11/5/06 |
Hoping for the Best: Austria to host EU-LAC Summit |
| 6/5/06 |
Navigating the Nationalization and Denaturing the Strife: The Aftermath of Bolivia’s Gas Golpe |
| 4/5/06 |
Announcement: President Morales Detonates a Bomb, with Repercussions that Reach Far Beyond Bolivia |
| 4/5/06 |
Morales Does the Unthinkable – He Carries out his Campaign Pledge |
| 3/5/06 |
MEXICO: Zapatista Leader Reaches Out to Neglected Minorities Diego Cevallos |
| 2/5/06 |
Evo Morales attempting what took Venezuelan President Chavez five years to accomplish Arthur Shaw |
| 2/5/06 |
Evo Morales’ courageous move now makes him a target along with Hugo Chavez Stephen Lendman |
| 20/4/06 |
Plan Patriota: What $700 Million in U.S. Cash Will and Will Not Buy You in Colombia |
| 19/4/06 |
Neither Honor nor Professionalism to be Found in Jackson Diehl’s Analysis of Latin America |
| 13/4/06 |
Washington’s Faltering Anti-Drug Strategy in Colombia, and Bogotá’s Evaporating Extradition Policy |
| 12/4/06 |
The Immigration Debate Rolls On: Mexico – So far from heaven; Washington – So far from fielding a legitimate and straight immigration strategy |
| 19/3/06 |
The Importance of Being Ecuador - Part 7 S. Artesian |
| 7/4/06 |
Lula No Long Ball Hitter When it Comes to Land Reform |
| 7/4/06 |
Peru’s 2006 Presidential Elections:
Still too close to call, but Humala should at least make it through round one and into the winner’s box |
| 29/3/06 |
Mexico-US: The Immigration Bomb Explodes |
| 22/3/06 |
Rumsfeld’s Harvest: Argentina’s Navy Spy Scandal |
| 20/3/06 |
Mexican Campaign Turns Dirty as López Obrador Stretches his Lead |
| 16/3/06 |
Water Wars: The Mexico City World Water Forum Begins Today |
| 16/3/06 |
Guatemala’s Cursed Armed Forces: Washington’s Old Friend is Back in Town |
| 5/3/06 |
The Importance of Being Ecuador, Part 6 S. Artesian |
| 4/3/06 |
Uruguay’s Tabaré Vazquez: Pink Tide or Political Voice of the Center? |
| 1/3/06 |
Secretary Rice Out to Innoculate Latin America, but Chávez is all but Guaranteed a Clean Win |
| 26/2/06 |
The Importance of Being Ecuador, Part 5 S. Artesian |
| 18/2/06 |
Congress quietly keeps School of the Americas alive by Doug Ireland |
| 16/2/06 |
The Travails of Mexican Journalist Lydia Cacho: Corruption and Impunity in Mexico’s Now Famous Press Freedom Case is One More Stain on the Fox Presidency |
| 15/2/06 |
Courting the Vote: Electoral Courts and Councils Take on the Challenge of Guaranteeing a Free and Fair Vote Throughout Latin America |
| 29/1/06 |
The Importance of Being Ecuador, Part 4 S. Artesian |
| 4/2/06 |
A Bizarre Beginning in Bolivia Inside Evo Morales’s Cabinet By JAMES PETRAS |
| 3/2/06 |
Costa Rica’s Elections: Not the Cleanest Game Around |
| 27/12/05 |
Argentina’s Néstor Kirchner: Peronism Without the Tears |
| 26/12/05 |
Mexico’s Important Presidential Campaign: Behind the Smiling Faces and Big Talk |
| 25/12/05 |
Zapatistas take a road trip to build a united left platform by David Van Deusen |
| 23/12/05 |
NAFTA, CAFTA-DR, and the Role of the Environment |
| 20/12/05 |
Bolivia’s Morales to be Inaugurated on Sunday |
| 18/12/05 |
General Eduardo Aldunate: Chile’s Problematic Gift to Haiti who could turn out to be President-elect Bachelet’s First Foreign Policy Challenge |
| 4/12/05 |
The Importance of Being Ecuador - Part 3
by S. Artesian |
| 5/12/05 |
Brazilians Mourn a Wounded President and Consider the Prospects of a Major Political Upset |
| 2/12/05 |
Judas’ Kiss: Brazil’s Deception and the WTO’s Geneva Framework |
| 21/11/05 |
Mexico’s Fox Woos Washington at Great Cost |
| 18/11/05 |
Drugs and the Guatemalan Military: A Report from the Texas Observer |
| 13/11/05 |
The Importance of Being Ecuador - Part 2
by S. Artesian |
| 14/11/05 |
Fujimori and Japan’s Ill-Conceived Concern over the Fate of its Besmirched Native Son |
| 10/11/05 |
The EU and Colombia: Betraying Responsibility |
| 4/11/05 |
Czech Republic’s Heavy Handed Diplomacy Aimed at Roiling EU-Cuban Relations and Isolating Havana |
| 3/11/05 |
The Summit That Lost Its Way |
| 1/11/05 |
Could a Slight Thaw in U.S.-Cuba Relations be in the Offing? |
| 25/10/05 |
Honduras Can’t Vote Away the Past |
| 22/10/05 |
The Importance of Being Ecuador, Part 1 by S. Artesian |
| 5/10/05 |
Fears mount as US opens new military installation in Paraguay |
| 10/10/05 |
Spain’s Zapatero Emerges as a Bold New Foreign Policy Factor in Latin America |
| 15/9/05 |
The Peru – Chile Arms Race: Current Ramifications of a Bitter History |
| 8/9/05 |
Justice and Democracy in Guyana Fly Limply in the Breeze |
| 5/9/05 |
Madrazo – Gordillo Split Poses a Serious Problem for the PRI and Mexico |
| 21/8/05 |
Look out Telenovelas, Telesur is in Town |
| 19/8/05 |
Rumsfeld and Rice on Chávez: But Where’s the Beef? |
| 8/05 |
The Sandinista Revolution and the “Fifth Freedom” by Mark Major |
| 11/8/05 |
Unfinished Business: Why Luis Posada Carriles, an Admitted Cuban Exile Terrorist, Should Face Justice in Venezuela |
| 11/8/05 |
COHA and Neocolonialism in Bolivia By Luis Gomez |
| 10/8/05 |
With Bolivia Still Seized by Unrest and Instability, there are Lessons to be Learned about Autonomy from Nicaragua’s Comparative Experience |
| 9/8/05 |
Free Trade Showdown: How Long Can Panama Hold Out for an Agreement that Reflects its Own National Interests? |
| 5/8/05 |
Washington’s Short-Sighted Policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean |
| 4/8/05 |
Argentina’s Labor Unions: Moyano’s Heavy Mantle |
| 3/8/05 |
Noriega, Bolton and Condoleezza Rice’s New Financial Subsidy to Rightwing Cuban America |
| 2/8/05 |
Latin American Debt Relief: There is Less Than Meets the Eye |
| 29/7/05 |
Moreno May Have to Reinvent Himself as the New IDB President |
| 26/7/05 |
The Fome Zero Program – Brazil’s Losing Struggle to Help the Hungry: Lula’s Leadership Fading |
| 26/7/05 |
Colombia – The Beginning of the End to a Coherent U.S. Drug Strategy |
| 20/7/05 |
Washington Secures Long-Sought Hemispheric Outpost, Perhaps at the Expense of Regional Sovereignty |
| 20/7/05 |
Nicaragua: A Three-Way Political Battleground |
| 19/7/05 |
Too Close for Comfort: El Salvador Ratchets Up its U.S. Ties |
| 15/7/05 |
LÛpez Obradorís Presidential Bid at a Time of Doubt for Mexican Politics |
| 17/7/05 |
The IMF and the Washington Consensus: A Misunderstood and Poorly Implemented Development Strategy |
| 14/7/05 |
If USA-dominated CAFTA goes into effect, deaths will shoot through the roof… |
| 12/7/05 |
Argentina-Brazil Relations: Urgent Challenges Come to the Forefront |
| 8/7/05 |
President Vicente Fox: More a Caricature of an Effective Presidency than the Real Thing |
| 8/7/05 |
Sovereignty Sinks in Latin America as Dollarization Rises |
| 6/7/05 |
Zapatistas Issue a Red Alert, Resurfacing Unwanted Memories for Mexicans |
| 5/7/05 |
Costa Rica’s Continued Fall from Grace |
| 5/7/05 |
Chilean Social Security Reform; Risking American Workers Pensions on the Dubious Success Pinochet’s Economic Strategy |
| 2/7/05 |
Like Oil and Water, Part 2 by S Artesian |
| 29/6/05 |
Strains on U.S.-Argentine Relations Remain but May Not be Fatal Shana Ramirez 29/6/05 |
| 24/6/05 |
Fair Trade: CAFTA Will Fail the Test, But Likely Make the Vote |
| 23/6/05 |
Callousness Redefined: How EU and U.S. Economic Policies Spell a Bitter End for the Caribbean’s Sugar Industry |
| 18/6/05 |
Southcom Generals Fret Over New Domino Effect by Tom Barry |
| 12/6/05 |
Like Oil and Water, Part 1 by S Artesian |
| 10/6/05 |
New Bolivian President Sworn in After Weeks of Mass Rebellion |
| 8/6/05 |
OAS – Looking Back on Fort Lauderdale |
| 31/5/05 |
CAFTA and its Discontents |
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