Published by IPS Analysis by Franz Chávez January 8, 2010 LA PAZ, Jan 8 (IPS) – Just five years ago, an alliance between an indigenous leader and Bolivia’s small but influential middle class seemed virtually impossible. But left-wing President Evo Morales was re-elected last month with an even more impressive landslide victory than his already [...]
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 Gerardo Halpern Dic 9, 2009 Pareciera que hasta el último de sus días y hasta en la más mínima práctica, el inmigrante deberá pagar una deuda que vaya uno a saber quién estableció que la tiene. En realidad, es posible determinar quién (o quiénes, en realidad) ha montado esta idea [...]
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 [...]
Published by Bolivia Rising July 22, 2009 The following article by Raúl Prada Alcoreza was originally published in the first issue (June 2008) of Crítica y Emancipación, a biannual Latin American journal of the social sciences. This translation from the Spanish, by Shana Yael Shubs and Ruth Felder, was published this year in a complete [...]
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 [...]
Publicado en BOLPRESS por Edgar Camacho Omiste * Mayo 6, 2009 Las normas relativas a las relaciones internacionales se encuentran en cuarenta (40) artículos, equivalentes al diez por ciento de un total de cuatrocientos diez (410) que contiene la nueva Constitución Política de Bolivia. En términos generales, el reciente texto mantiene los lineamientos de la [...]
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 [...]
El D.S. 0003 dispone que el Organo Electoral “proceda con el registro y empadronamiento de bolivianas y bolivianos residentes en el exterior para garantizar su derecho al sufragio en futuros procesos electorales”, de acuerdo a lo previsto en el Artículo 127 de la Constitución Política el Estado aprobada el pasado 25 de enero del 2009 [...]
La Paz, 11 feb (ABI).- El gobierno de Evo Morales instruyó el miércoles mediante un decreto a la Corte Nacional Electoral (CNE) comenzar el empadronamiento de resistentes bolivianos en el extranjero, en sujeción a las prescripciones de la Constitución en vigor. La disposición amplía el espectro electoral “para todos los bolivianos que están en el [...]
The Center for Economic and Policy Research January 26, 2009 “The Obama administration’s response to Bolivia’s referendum on a new constitution may be key to improved relations between the two countries, according to Mark Weisbrot, co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. “If President Obama issues a clear statement indicating support for the [...]
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 [...]
By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky / La Paz Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009 en TIME “If President Barack Obama were to decide that “change” includes rewriting the United States constitution, he would probably find himself on the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue quicker than you can say Bill of Rights. But for left-wing Latin American Presidents, redoing national charters [...]
“A new constitution approved handily Sunday also risks dividing the nation. By Sara Miller Llana | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the January 27, 2009 edition La Paz, Bolivia - Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, easily won his campaign for a new constitution Sunday – promising vast new powers to the [...]
Since the start of the new millennium, popular movements in Bolivia have learned to mobilize en masse to form a united front of class and ethnicity to oust two presidents and reject a third candidate. Bolivians have also elected one of their own, who without strong middle class and mestizo support, probably would not have [...]
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