Publicado por Evo en México
17 de febrero 2010

El primer acto público del Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, Evo Morales, a su llegada a México este domingo 21, a las 14:30 horas, será depositar una ofrenda floral en el Hemiciclo a Juárez, donde también cumplirá una guardia de honor.

El mandatario aymara tributará así un homenaje a su homólogo mexicano, zapoteco, a la par de recordar que fue Bolivia el primer país en reconocer la presidencia constitucional de Don Benito Juárez, en octubre de 1867, luego del fusilamiento en Querétaro del emperador Maximiliano de Habsburgo, en junio de ese año.

Unos minutos después, a eso de las 15 horas, recibirá la Llave de la Ciudad de manos del Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Marcelo Ebrard, y será declarado Huésped Distinguido de la Ciudad de México en el edificio del Ayuntamiento, zócalo del Centro Histórico.

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February 19th, 2010 |Categoria: Relaciones con México | Tags: Proceso de Cambio, Relaciones Internacionales. | Comentarios: 0

Published by Bolivia Rising
Written by Brenda Norrell
February 11, 2009

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — Bolivian President Evo Morales, announcing the objectives of the upcoming Peoples Climate Summit, made it clear that the so-called developed countries of the world have usurped the bounties of Mother Earth at the expense of the poorest people in the world.

Cautioning mankind of the suffering and displacement which leads to forced migration, Morales called for The Peoples World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 19-22, 2010.

Stressing the need to reestablish harmony with nature and establish the rights of Mother Earth, Morales welcomed those willing to work for the good of all mankind, and those governments willing to work for the best interests of their people.

Morales said climate change represents a real threat to the existence of humanity, of living being and Mother Earth. The danger is serious for the islands, coastal areas, glaciers in the Himalayas, the Andes, mountains of the world, poles of the Earth, warm regions like Africa, water sources, populations affected by increasing natural disasters, plants, animals and ecosystems, he said.

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February 10th, 2010 |Categoria: Uncategorized | Tags: Cambio Climático, Documentos, Pueblos Indígenas, Relaciones Internacionales, Sostenibilidad Ecológica. | Comentarios: 0

By Vicente Fretes Cibils, Marcelo Giugale, Connie Luff, World Bank
2006

After many years of severe institutional crisis, Bolivia is reorienting its development strategy and closing the gap between the country’s problems and effective solutions. This book contributes to the debate on how to confront the challenges that Bolivia faces today. It presents ideas to help the country grow equitably, with a transparent and efficient government that provides improved social services to its population.

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February 6th, 2010 |Categoria: Comercio Internacional | Tags: Documentos, Proceso de Cambio. | Comentarios: 0

Published and Written by The Andean Information Network
February 1, 2010

This should quell some fears about how closed to capitalist and American initiatives the new Bolivian pluri-national government could be:

During his campaign, Evo Morales promised that he would reach out to the lowland upper and middle classes and lobby to have the 2010 Miss Universe Pageant held in Santa Cruz.  The lowland city has the stereotype of being preoccupied with beauty queens and contests.

Evo Morales, Culture Minister Zulma Yugar and local pageant organizer, Gloria Limpias, met with representatives from the Miss Universe Pageant on February 1. Representatives will be in the country for a month, visiting landmarks and evaluating whether or not Santa Cruz is an appropriate venue. They plan to submit a full report to pageant owner, Donald Trump.

According to Minister Yugar, this is “the best opportunity we have… to [show the world] our national patrimony…” Yugar highlighted the potentially beneficial publicity, since the contest has millions of viewers around the world. She added that holding the pageant in Santa Cruz would be “the best gift for [the city’s] bicentennial.”

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February 4th, 2010 |Categoria: Relaciones con EE.UU. | Tags: Relaciones Internacionales. | Comentarios: 0

Publicado por TERRAVIVA World Social Forum 2010
Escrito por Franz Chávez
Enero 25, 2010

LA PAZ, 21 ene (IPS) – La construcción en Bolivia de un modelo de gobierno basado en la participación de las mayorías en las decisiones políticas y el avance a una forma de vida sin discriminaciones, centran las metas de los actores sociales durante el segundo mandato de Evo Morales, que comienza este viernes.

Cuando se cumple el primer decenio del Foro Social Mundial (FSM), Bolivia se ha convertido en una referencia de los pilares que en enero de 2001 fueron trazados bajo el principio de un mundo solidario, durante el primer encuentro organizado por movimientos civiles, en la meridonal ciudad brasileña de Porto Alegre.

La lucha contra el dominio económico o imperial y el deseo de convivir en armonía con la diversidad de culturas y corrientes de pensamiento que ha orientado el FSM fue adoptada por la revolución democrática y cultural iniciada por el presidente Morales y las organizaciones sociales que lo respaldan, desde su llegada al poder hace cinco años.

Tras su nuevo triunfo el 6 de diciembre, Morales, un indígena de 50 años, es juramentado formalmente este viernes como presidente para un segundo mandato quinquenal. Antes, asume el cargo en una ceremonia ancestral especial sin valor legal.

Entre los días 25 y 31 de enero Brasil será escenario de una serie de reuniones del FSM que hará un balance de sus 10 años de vida y establecerá las estrategias del futuro en medio de lo que sus diferentes movimientos han definido como una “crisis civilizatoria” que soportan los pueblos del mundo.

“Bolivia ha posicionado demandas legítimas de los pueblos del mundo y percibo que está en un momento y con capacidad de ser referente real”, expresó a IPS el secretario técnico del Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe, el hondureño Mateo Martínez.

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January 25th, 2010 |Categoria: Movimientos Sociales e Indígenas- NuevaMatrizRRII- Poder Global | Tags: Cambio Climático, Documentos, Proceso de Cambio, Relaciones Internacionales. | Comentarios: 0

Published by Upside Down World
Written by Ximena Soruco Sologuren, Translated by: Marcelo Virkel
15 January 2010

In January 2009 Bolivians adopted a New State Political Constitution, in which converged many histories and memories that coexisted during different cycles: the crisis of political parties, representative democracy and the neoconservative economic model caused pleas for the nationalization of resources and social control that echoed the 1952 Revolution -when miners, peasants and the middle class mobilized against the anti-nation (the conservative miner State). But also the memory of the anti-colonial struggles that transcended and confronted the Bolivian nation-state emerged with an unprecedented force: Tomás Katari, Tupac Katari (1781), Zárate Willka (1899), Guarayan leader Andrés Guayocho (1887), the battle of Kuruyuki de los guaraníes (1892), the movement of the empowered leaders (1900-1930), the Indigenismo and Katarismo (1970s), the demand for land and territory by lowlands indigenous people (1990s), etcetera.

Evo Morales embodies the intersection of the national-popular scope that emerged from within the nation-state during the Chaco War (1932-1936) and condensed during the 1952 Revolution, and the anti-colonial scope, whose resistance began during the conquest’s early years and had its highest point in 1781, with incidents that were profound -because they emerged from outside of the nation-state-, but have not been so geographically widespread during the two hundred years of republican history, until now.

Is this an unprecedented intersection, in the sense that both scopes have been running in a parallel way without touching? If so, what is this intersection in reality and what are the alternatives of political construction open to us nowadays? The uprisings we mention have never been “pure” since they took place within the colonial context to which the national context latter superimposed, a fact that continued and intensified old contradictions in new ways; but certainly there was more symbolic weight in one scope or the other depending on who was leading the uprisings and forming the alliances, and if they were indigenous or mestizo. However, both scopes had to face the “colonial-national situation” that had created the clutter, that is, individuals experiencing different (ethnic, class, gender) dominance conditions within the system, and whose relationship with one another was one of a chained (self)denial (everyone on top of and against each other).

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January 20th, 2010 |Categoria: Constituyente y Constitución- Movimientos Sociales e Indígenas- NuevaMatrizRRII | Tags: Coca, Documentos, Proceso de Cambio. | Comentarios: 0

Published by Bolivia Rising
18 January 2010

In response to US climate envoy Jonathan Pershing’s attempts to blame countries of the Latin American ALBA block for the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks and the US decision to therefore sideline the UN in future climate talks, Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s ambassador to the UN said the following:

“The US’ deliberate attempts to sideline both democracy and justice in the climate policy debate is holding humanity hostage – and will be viewed as both reckless and immoral by future generations.”“It is time the US read the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s own reports, which in the Fourth Assessment clearly noted that ‘Adaptive capacity is intimately connected to social and economic development, but it is not evenly distributed across and within societies.’ Furthermore it states: ‘Vulnerability to climate change can be exacerbated by …poverty, unequal access to resources, food insecurity, trends in economic globalization, conflict and incidence of diseases such as HIV/AIDS.’”

“The only solution to climate change is one based on justice otherwise we are making a decision to sacrifice more than half of humanity. Climate Justice will mean radical reduction of emissions in industrialized countries and the transfer of resources and technology to developing countries. If the US and other governments can so easily find money for endless wars, bank bailouts and bonanza bonuses for the rich, they clearly have the resources to help save lives and protect future generations.”

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January 19th, 2010 |Categoria: Cambio Climático- NuevaMatrizRRII- Relaciones con EE.UU. | Tags: Cambio Climático, Documentos, Proceso de Cambio, Relaciones Internacionales. | Comentarios: 0

Publicado por CAMBIO
Entrevista de Edwin Conde Villarreal
17 enero 2010

En esta entrevista con Cambio, el antropólogo jesuita asegura que paso a paso avanzamos hacia las transformaciones del país y que somos la atención de muchos investigadores extranjeros. El sacerdote compara la interculturalidad boliviana con el yin yan, un concepto fundamentado en la dualidad de todo lo existente en el universo según la filosofía oriental. Este concepto se refiere a que dos fuerzas fundamentales aparentemente opuestas y complementarias se encuentran en todas las cosas. Albó dice que somos distintos, mantenemos nuestras diferencias pero somos capaces de entreverarnos y entendernos, y sobre todo enriquecernos mutuamente. Adquirimos de un lado y del otro, pero sin perder nuestras identidades y sobre todo sin imposiciones.
–Se habla de interculturalidad, pero ¿cómo debemos entender nuestra realidad?
–Debemos meter bien los pies en nuestra realidad, arraigarnos bien, ser como los árboles, cuando más metidas tienen las raíces para adentro, más pueden expandirse para otras partes. No tenemos que ser como las plantas parásitas, que pueden vivir metidas dentro de otro árbol. Una vez hecho esto, desde ahí nos ‘compartimos’ con todos, nos vemos con todos entre nosotros, pero no con una visión de que uno es el bueno y el otro es el malo, o viceversa.

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January 18th, 2010 |Categoria: Constituyente y Constitución- NuevaMatrizRRII- Poder Global | Tags: Documentos, Expresiones Culturales, Proceso de Cambio, Pueblos Indígenas, Relaciones Internacionales. | Comentarios: 0