Published by Upside Down World Written by Benjamin Dangl 23 August 2010 This summer the Spanish edition of my first book, The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia, was published by Haymarket Books as El Precio del Fuego: Las luchas por los recursos naturales y los movimientos sociales en Bolivia. The [...]
Publicado por PIEB en Tinkazos Virtual No. 19 Por Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón Este trabajo fue escrito en el año 2004, cuando todavía no había sido electo como presidente Evo Morales en Bolivia, por lo que los acontecimientos y las hipótesis que aquí se analizan son, de alguna manera, un anticipo de los hechos que se [...]
Published by COHA Written by Research Associate Abigail Griffith 18 Jun 2010 Over the last twenty years, almost all applicable Latin American countries have been moving toward full recognition of their multiethnic citizenship. Peru codified indigenous rights in 1993, Ecuador legalized them in 1998, and Bolivia passed a new constitution including embedded indigenous rights in [...]
Published by ZCommunications.org By Frederico Fuentes Source: b u l l e t 30 May 2010 Under the presidency of Evo Morales, Bolivia has achieved a new constitution incorporating the rights of indigenous peoples, the beginning of land reform, the nationalization of important natural resources and increased state social spending to the poor. We hear [...]
Published by Andean Information Network Written by Doug Hertzler February 1, 2010 In September 2008 lowland elites led sustained protests against the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, demanding autonomy for their departments. Yet, Morales’ MAS government never opposed grassroots autonomy initiatives. In fact, the administration held a 2006 referendum allowing lowland departments to opt for autonomy [...]
Published by Andean Information Center Written by Doug Hertzler January 29, 2010 On December 6, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous President, easily won reelection with 64% of the vote to 26% for the right-wing candidate Manfred Reyes Villa. During his first term in office the international press and opinion makers hyped a “deep” divide between [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Publicado por Kaos en la Red Tomado de Bolpress Escrito por Xavier Albó Diciembre 22, 2009 El nuevo escenario nacional tras las elecciones del pasado domingo 6, que dieron dos tercios a Evo y al MAS en ambas cámaras, tiene mucho que ver con las naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos y con el rasgo [...]
Publicado por Kaos en la Red Escrito por Iñigo Errejón Galván Diciembre 13, 2009 Estas elecciones presidenciales y legislativas en Bolivia han sido históricas (…) porque marcan un punto de difícil retorno en la construcción nacional capitaneada por el Movimiento Al Socialismo. Estas elecciones presidenciales y legislativas en Bolivia han sido históricas. Pero no por [...]
Published by Bolivia Rising Dec 11, 2009 A team from the Toronto Bolivia Solidarity in Toronto, supported by Latin American Solidarity Network are making a video of their experiences during the election of Evo Morales. This video comes on the heels of their first video made during the Constitutional elections of last December 2008. http://grupoapoyo.org/basn/node/6529 [...]
Published by Bolivia Rising Written by Tanya Kerssen Dec 11, 2009 Bolivian president Evo Morales and his political party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), won a resounding victory in the presidential elections this past Sunday, December 6. The nearest challengers, Manfred Reyes Villa and his running mate Leopoldo Fernandez — whose current address is a [...]
Publicado por Rebelión Por Hugo Moldiz Mercado La Epoca Dic 10, 2009 Un rico debate se anticipa en torno al cómo y con qué construir la nueva sociedad Con un vigoroso bloque indígena-obrero-popular, unas clases medias mestizas urbanas menos timoratas y un empresariado cada vez menos receptivo a esos gritos opositores que anunciaban que se [...]
Publicado por Página 12 Por Sebastián Ochoa Dic 8, 2009 El ministro de Exteriores del gobierno de Morales consideró que con mayoría de dos tercios en la Asamblea ganada el domingo se deben modificar varias leyes para prevenir “el saqueo de los recursos naturales”. En diálogo con este diario, comentó que la clave de los [...]
Published by Z Space December, 08 2009By Dangl, Ben Ben Dangl’s ZSpace Page Bolivian President Evo Morales was re-elected on Sunday, December 6th in a landslide victory. After the polls closed, fireworks, music and celebrations filled the Plaza Murillo in downtown La Paz where MAS supporters chanted “Evo Again! Evo Again!” Addressing the crowd from [...]
Publicado en Dazebao.org 26 Mayo 2009 por Gianni Tarquini Intervista a Xavier Albò* sul modello di convivenza proposto dalla nuova Costituzione boliviana LA PAZ – Quali sono gli elementi più interessanti della nuova Costituzione boliviana approvata nel 2008 e promulgata nel 2009? I puntii chiave della nuova Costituzione sono inseriti già nel suo Preambolo. Sono [...]
Team of Spanish Scholars Helped Recast Constitutions in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, February 17, 2009; Page A01 LA PAZ, Bolivia — Once a product of armed rebellion, the revolution in Latin America today is taking place on paper in the form of new constitutions, a mostly peaceful process [...]
By Daniel Denvir in The Independent, January 26, 2009 By Daniel Denvir “Barack Obama’s rise to power leaves progressives in the U.S. to grapple with questions familiar to many Latin American leftists: how do we interact with an ally once he takes office? And is he really an ally after all? During the U.S. presidential [...]
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