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Raw Materials or Sacred Beings? Lithium Extraction in Bolivia Puts Two Worldviews into Tension
Mario Orospe Hernández | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – A rapid escalation of lithium extraction in the Bolivian Andes conflicts with the beliefs of Indigenous communities who call the region home.
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IMF Tells Bolivia to Drop Its Successful Economic Model
Kawsachun News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022
16 Sep 2022 – The IMF released a report today on the Bolivian economy in which it recommends adopting drastic neoliberal measures, including; reducing workers’ salaries, cutting public investments, and ending currency controls. These policies have turned Bolivia from one of the poorest countries in the region into it’s fastest-growing economy.
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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls for a Global Campaign to Eliminate NATO
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022
30 Jul 2022 – In interview with British journalist, Morales says the U.S. uses NATO to provoke wars and sell weapons. U.S./UK-backed coup against him in 2019 was undertaken for lithium and because his government advanced an alternative economic model to the neoliberal “Washington Consensus”
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Summit of the Americas Fails: Boycott by Presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – As the US government’s Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
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As Anger toward Belarus Mounts, Recall the 2013 Forced Landing of Bolivia’s Plane to Find Snowden
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 May 2021
24 May 2021 – What Belarus did, while illegal, is not unprecedented. The dangerous tactic was pioneered by the same U.S. and E.U. officials now righteously condemning it.
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Despite U.S. Dirty Tricks, Bolivia Is Finding a Way to Stay Independent
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Apr 2021
29 Mar 2021 – Bolivia has decided to act against the coup makers. The U.S. government is now using that action to delegitimize the government of President Arce. Platforms such as TMS might turn out to be essential as a conduit for Bolivia to tell its story and not be suffocated by Washington’s information war, a vital part of the regime change strategy.
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Former President Evo Morales Returns to Bolivia One Year after Being Forced into Exile by Military Coup
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – Twelve months after being driven into exile by right-wing forces, socialist former president Evo Morales was “received by the very social movements who defeated the coup and restored democracy.”
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Bolivia’s President-Elect Luis Arce Attacked with Dynamite
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2020
On 5 Nov 2020 night, the Movement Towards Socialism spokesperson Sebastian Michel denounced that Bolivia’s President-elect Luis Arce was attacked with dynamite while he was in a meeting at the party’s headquarters in La Paz city. No injuries reported.
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Ending Regime Change –> In Bolivia and the World
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism and restored it to power.
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Socialist Luis Arce Wins Bolivian Election
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – A year after former Bolivian president Evo Morales was ousted in a military coup that installed a far-right regime, Morales’ ally Luis Arce declared victory after exit polls showed the socialist candidate with a large advantage over his two main competitors. “Democracy has won,” Arce, who served as Morales’ finance minister, said.
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As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections a Third Time, Media Continue to Ignore Coup
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – When a country’s military oust a sitting president by force, that is a military coup. Referring to it simply as a “resignation”–as in the Washington Post’s 11/10/19–fails to capture the nature of the overthrow. Describing Morales’ ouster as merely happening “amid widespread unrest” is a way of telling readers: “This sort of thing happens all the time in this part of the world. No need to look into it.”
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Bolivia’s Coup-born President Áñez (Who Deposed Evo Morales) Tests Positive for COVID-19
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – Bolivia’s de facto president Jeanine Áñez today announced via her Twitter account that she had tested positive to COVID-19 while other members of her team are infected as well.
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Bolivia: The Open Veins Are Bleeding Six Months after the Coup
Verónica Zapata | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020
On 10 Nov 2019 a violent coup d’état took place in Bolivia navigated by the U.S. and with the backing of the armed forces, the police and paramilitary groups forcing Evo Morales to resign at gunpoint. The objective was to regain control of lithium and to erase a government with an indigenous face that for the first time since the genocidal conquest of America had come to power.
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Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing Coup
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 2019. Morales had just won a presidential election in October for a term that would have begun in January 2020. The Organization of American States claimed that there was fraud in the election and Morales was prematurely removed from office.
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(Castellano) Bolivia: Por Hablar de Golpe de Estado Te Catalogan como ‘Sedicioso’ y Te Persiguen Penalmente
Alex Anfruns – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2020
28 Dic 2019 – En Bolivia hay que tener cuidado con lo que se dice y se hace, si no quiere que un juez le acuse de “sedición y terrorismo” para meterle entre rejas. Fue el caso de periodistas argentinos y venezolanos que visitaron el país para informar sobre las masacres.
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Bolivia’s Coup Dictator Seeks to Annihilate Opposition from Exiled
Ramona Wadi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – In light of what is occurring in Venezuela, the latest imperialist intervention in Bolivia must be exposed as a plan not only to oust Morales, but also as one aimed at regional destabilisation. Deposed President Evo Morales will be working with an international team that includes the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, who in 1998 issued an international arrest warrant for Pinochet.
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Bolivia’s Lithium Is Fair Game in a World Ruled by Spheres of Influence
Joaquin Flores | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – The US approach to overthrowing governments in Latin America and the trail of tears and blood it left in its wake will no doubt be highly motivating to the broad masses of Latin Americans who will support the coming Latin American bloc.
→ read full articleInterview with Ex-President of Bolivia Evo Morales: ‘The Murders Must Stop’
Interview by Jens Glüsing – Der SPIEGEL, 2 Dec 2019
28 Nov 2019 – Bolivia’s long-time president, Evo Morales, has fled to exile in Mexico. What led to his departure and the conditions under which he would consider returning. At 60, he was Bolivia’s first indigenous president. The former head of the coca-farmers’ union is a symbolic figure among the Latin American left.
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Bolivia: Post-Coup Update
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2019
29 Nov 2019 – In short: rigged ‘elections’ will be held, in which Evo Morales is to be excluded, and in which there will be no repercussions against the U.S.-stooge-regime participants if their side fails to win those ‘elections’. The Bolivian people won’t have any legal right to hang the coupsters. The U.S. regime will see to that.
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After Evo, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019
The overthrow of the elected leader cannot be understood without a glance at the nation’s massive reserves of this crucial mineral.
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(Castellano) En Bolivia como en Palestina
Carlos Aznárez | Resumen Latinoamericano – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019
20 nov 2019 – Bolivia se está pareciendo a Palestina. Esta dictadura boliviana de hoy, baleando desde helicópteros o tanquetas, torturando y asesinando, tiene además un odio de clase contra quienes gracias a un gobierno popular y revolucionario. En Palestina, el ocupante no solo se apodera de territorios, expulsando a los habitantes nativos, demoliendo sus viviendas y destruyendo sus cultivos, sino que también manifiesta un profundo odio hacia quienes, a pesar de las continuas persecuciones y masacres, mantienen un perfil de resistencia política y sobre todo cultural.
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In Bolivia as in Palestine
Carlos Aznarez | Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019
20 Nov 2019 – Bolivia resembles Palestine these days. This unfolding Bolivian dictatorship, which orders its military and police to repress the indigenous-peasant people, are shooting from helicopters or tanks, torturing and murdering. In Palestine, the occupier not only seizes territories, expelling the native inhabitants, demolishing their homes and destroying their crops, but also manifests a deep hatred towards those who, in spite of continuous persecution and massacres, maintain a profile of political and above all cultural resistance.
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“They’re Killing Us like Dogs” – A Massacre in Bolivia and a Plea for Help
Medea Benjamin | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019
22 Nov 2019 – I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power.
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“We Refuse to be Burned”: 500 Years of Resistance, Colonization, and Coups in Bolivia
Maya Ajchura Chipana | The Red Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019
18 Nov 2019 – I am writing this because I don’t see many Bolivian voices represented in the media. Here is my story.
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Bolivia Coup Led by Christian Fascist Paramilitary Leader and Millionaire–with Foreign Support
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition.
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Bolivia in Crisis: How Evo Morales Was Forced Out
Angus McNelly – The Conversation, 18 Nov 2019
12 Nov 2019 – Evo Morales has left Bolivia on a plane for Mexico, a day after he resigned as president. Morales and his vice-president, Álvaro García Linera, stood down from office on November 10, following a ‘suggestion’ by the head of the military, Williams Kaliman.
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Top Bolivian Coup Plotters Trained by US Military’s School of the Americas, Served as Attachés in FBI Police Programs
Jeb Sprague | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2019
13 Nov 2019 – The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country’s elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10.
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Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm’s Lithium Deal
Eoin Higgins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – “Bolivia’s lithium belongs to the Bolivian people. Not to multinational corporate cabals.”
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Bolivia’s Evo Morales Steps Down: Reaction from Latin America and Beyond
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – A round-up of international reactions to the news of the resignation of Latin America’s longest-serving leader.
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(Português) Queimadas na Bolívia Matam 2,3 Milhões de Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2019
27 de set 2019 – De acordo com informações da Agência France-Presse, os incêndios florestais que atingiram o leste da Bolívia já mataram mais de 2,3 milhões de animais silvestres. Entre as espécies atingidas estão onças-pintadas, pumas e lhamas. A mídia boliviana exibiu carcaças de animais carbonizados em florestas fumegantes.
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Bolivian Fires Are Threatening People and Wildlife–It’s Not Just Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest That’s Ablaze
Claire F.R. Wordley – The Conversation, 2 Sep 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That’s more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years. Experts say that it will take at least two centuries to repair the ecological damage done by the fires, while at least 500 species are said to be at risk from the flames.
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UN: Bolivia’s Universal Healthcare Is ‘Model for the World’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2019
23 May 2019 – The U.N.’s World Health Organization praised Bolivia’s newly implemented universal health care system, known in the country as the Single Health System. The WHO pointed out that Bolivia’s leftist government has given generous funding and resources to health, ensuring free treatment for all.
→ read full articleLatin America’s “Pink Tide” and the Challenge of Systemic Change: Bolivia
The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017 – In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power. By 2010, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, with Peru joining the ranks in 2011. We asked three analysts to describe some of the institutional innovations implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador during this time, and to reflect on the relationship between organized citizenry and the state in these transitions in order to elicit lessons learned.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia celebrará jornada de poesía a favor de la paz en el mundo
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2016
El Movimiento Poético Mundial espera organizar actividades similares en 24 países de América latina.
→ read full articleBolivia Prepares Literacy Programs in 36 Indigenous Languages
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2016
Since Evo Morales took office illiteracy has been reduced from 13.3 percent to 2.9 percent, the lowest rate in the history of Bolivia.
→ read full articleBehind the Bolivia Miner [Fake] Cooperatives’ Protests and the killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister
Stansfield Smith | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2016
The Bolivian cooperatives’ protests and their August 25 killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister of the Interior requires us to question our assumptions about cooperatives. What are the Bolivian mining cooperatives? Regardless of their initial intentions, cooperatives existing in a surrounding capitalist environment must compete in business practices or go under. The Bolivian mining cooperatives themselves underwent this process, and have become businesses whose owners hire labor.
→ read full articleOctober 9, 1967: Che Guevara Is Executed in Bolivia
Richard Kreitner – The Nation, 12 Oct 2015
Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army on this day in 1967. When his self-selected executioner hesitated before firing, Guevara allegedly spat at him and shouted: “Shoot me, you coward! You are only going to kill a man!”
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Henry A. Aira Gutiérrez, Correo del Sur - Culture of Peace News Network, 3 Aug 2015
July 22, 2015 – Culture of peace and conflict resolution are new phrases that Bolivians can use to avoid going to court. With the implementation of the new moral codes as of August 6, it is also the expression of the mediators, whose job is to reduce the caseload in the courts for civil and commercial matters.
→ read full articleBolivia: 15 Years after the Cochabamba Water Revolt, Echoes in New Cases of Corporate Abuse
Philippa de Boissière, Upside Down World – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2015
27 Apr 2015 – Fifteen years ago this month the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia were victorious in their now-famous showdown with one of the most powerful multinational corporations in the world, in what has come to be known as the Cochabamba Water Revolt. Fast forward to South America 2015.
→ read full articleU.S. Blocked Declaration of a Right to Health Care, Says Bolivia’s President
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2015
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has blamed U.S. President Barack Obama for the failure of the recent Organization of American States Summit of the Americas to issue a final declaration, and he says that a major sticking point was Obama’s opposition to a provision that health care is “a human right.”
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Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2014
South America Takes Moral Leadership Away From the Immoral West: 30 Jul 2014 – Bolivia has declared Israel to be a “terrorist state” and renounced a visa exemption agreement with the country in protest over the ongoing Israeli military offense in Gaza which already killed more than 1,300 dead and left over 7,000 wounded.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia es declarada territorio libre de analfabetismo por la Unesco
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2014
La nación suramericana alcanzó esta meta tras la aplicación del método Yo Sí Puedo, diseñado por Cuba y empleado en naciones como Venezuela, que fue declarada libre de analfabetismo en 2005.
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The Associated Press – Al Jazeera America, 21 Jul 2014
Child labor has been common in a nation that ranks as one of the poorest in the Americas.
→ read full article(Castellano) Evo Morales Promulgó Ley de Control de Armas en Bolivia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2013
El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, promulgó una Ley para el control de armas en Bolivia, a través de la cual se busca regular el porte y tenencia de armas de fuego por parte de civiles y militares en ese país suramericano. La norma establece un nuevo tipo penal que es el tráfico ilícito de armas, que tendrá una pena de hasta 30 años de cárcel según quien lo efectúe, en este caso miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas y la Policía.
→ read full articleForcing Down the Bolivian President’s Plane Was an Act of Piracy
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2013
Imagine the aircraft of the President of France being forced down in Latin America on “suspicion” that it was carrying a political refugee to safety – and not just any refugee but someone who has provided the people of the world with proof of criminal activity on an epic scale.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bolivia Ha Reducido 60 Veces la Brecha Entre Ricos y Pobres Desde 2006
Agencia Boliviana de Información – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Feb 2013
El ministro de Economía y Finanzas Públicas de Bolivia, Luis Arce, informó este jueves [14 feb 2013] que durante los gobiernos neoliberales, el 10 por ciento más rico de la población boliviana generaba alrededor de 95 veces más dinero que el 10 por ciento más pobre. Hoy esa brecha se acortó a 36 veces, son 60 veces que se ha reducido la brecha entre los más ricos y los más pobres”, aseveró Arce. “Nuestras políticas fructificaron para que nuestros hermanos del campo abandonen la extrema pobreza”, enfatizó.
→ read full articleBolivia Reducing 60 Times the Gap between Rich and Poor Since 2006
Agencia Boliviana de Información-AB I – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Feb 2013
The Bolivian Minister of Economics and Public Finances, Luis Arce reported yesterday [14 Feb 2013] that during the previous neoliberal governments the richest 10% of the population generated around 95 times more income than the poorest 10%. “Today this gap has narrowed with the richest now earning 36 times more than the poorest. The gap between the richest and poorest has narrowed by 60,” he said. “Our policies have resulted in our rural brothers getting out of extreme poverty,” he stressed.
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Jacob Chamberlain – Common Dreams, 7 Jan 2013
Bolivia President Evo Morales has nationalized two electricity distribution companies owned by Spanish utility company Iberdrola in the latest of several industry nationalizations since Morales took office, which has included oil, mining, telecommunications, and energy generation companies.
→ read full article(Castellano) Evo Morales Nombra a Sean Penn “Embajador de Causas Nobles de Bolivia”
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2012
“El Presidente le ha pedido (…) que lleve nuestras reivindicaciones, nuestra propuesta de retorno al mar a los distintos escenarios, en los que podamos avanzar de manera significativa en el contexto internacional”, señaló el ministro de la Presidencia.
→ read full article‘End of Capitalism’: Bolivia to Expel Coca-Cola
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Aug 2012
In a symbolic rejection of US capitalism, Bolivia announced it will expel the Coca-Cola Company from the country at the end of the Mayan calendar. “December 21 of 2012 will be the end of egoism and division, it should be the end of Coca-Cola,” Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca decreed. Last year, Bolivia became the second Latin American country not to have a single McDonald’s.
→ read full articleBolivia Pushes Back Against Swiss Commodities Giant Glencore
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero - CorpWatch, 30 Jul 2012
Glencore corporation, the secretive Swiss commodities giant which has become one of the world’s biggest traders of grain, oil and minerals, has hit an unlikely roadblock: On June 22 [2012], the Bolivian government seized the company’s Colquiri tin and zinc mine. Colquiri was the third Glencore operation to be nationalized by Bolivia in the last five years.
→ read full articleBolivia Has Transformed Itself by Ignoring the Washington Consensus
Luis Hernández Navarro – The Guardian, 26 Mar 2012
In the past six years, Bolivia has become one of the Latin American countries most successful at improving its citizens’ standard of living. Economic indicators such as low unemployment and decreased poverty, as well as better public healthcare and education, are outstanding.
→ read full articleMcDonald’s Goes Belly Up in Bolivia
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2012
McDonald’s leaves Bolivia healthier forever! It is the first Latin-American country that will remain without any McDonald’s, and the first country in the world where the company has to close because it persists in having their numbers in the red for over a decade.
→ read full articleBolivia: New Food Policy to Boost Small-Scale Farms
Franz Chávez – Inter-Press Service IPS, 25 Jul 2011
In the midst of heated debate with agribusiness, the Bolivian government has launched an agricultural production model aimed at boosting food sovereignty by supporting small farmers, in order to generate surpluses to cushion the swings in international food prices.
→ read full articleThe Law of Mother Earth: Behind Bolivia’s Historic Bill
Nick Buxton – Yes! Magazine, 2 May 2011
A new law expected to pass in Bolivia mandates a fundamental ecological reorientation of the nation’s economy and society.
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John Vidal in La Paz – The Guardian, 18 Apr 2011
Bolivia is set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the country’s rich mineral deposits as “blessings” and is expected to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry.
→ read full articleGoverning by Obeying the People: Bolivia’s Politics of the Street
Benjamin Dangl – Toward Freedom, 28 Feb 2011
From across North Africa to Wisconsin, activists are navigating a new terrain of global protest and relationships with their governments. Whether in ousting old tyrants or dealing with new allies in office, the example of Bolivia holds many lessons for social movements. An illustrative dynamic is now unfolding in this Andean country where the movements hold sway over the government palace, and the leftist President Evo Morales says he “governs by obeying the people.” But sometimes the people don’t give him any other choice.
→ read full articleBolivia Formally Recognizes Palestine as Independent State
DPA – Haaretz, 27 Dec 2010
Bolivia has formally recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state within the 1967 borders, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday [22 Dec 2010]. Reports last week indicated that such a decision was imminent.
→ read full articleBolivia: Cancun Deal is Hollow and False – Its Cost Will Be Measured in Human Lives
Plurinational State of Bolivia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2010
A so-called victory for multilateralism is really a victory for the rich nations who bullied and cajoled other nations into accepting a deal on their terms. The richest nations offered us nothing new in terms of emission reductions or financing, and instead sought at every stage to backtrack on existing commitments, and include every loophole possible to reduce their obligation to act. While developing nations – those that face the worst consequences of climate change – pleaded for ambition, we were instead offered the “realism” of empty gestures. Proposals by powerful countries like the US were sacrosanct, while ours were disposable.
→ read full articleBolivia: ‘Never Before Have We Seen Such Changes’
Green Left Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Oct 2010
Alina Canaviri Sullcani is a Bolivian indigenous peasant now visiting Australia. Canaviri is active in Santa Cruz as a leader of the National Federation of Indigenous Peasant Women of Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa” and the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party led by President Evo Morales. She spoke at the Latin America solidarity conference in Melbourne over October 8-9, 2010. Green Left Weekly’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Canaviri on the process of change in Bolivia being led by Morales, the country’s first president from the indigenous majority.
→ read full articleFrom Rebellion to Reform: Bolivia’s Reconstituted Neoliberalism
Jeffery R. Webber – International Socialist Review, 20 Sep 2010
In various Latin American countries, leftists greeted the victory of Morales in Bolivia as an unequivocal advance toward socialism. Atilio Borón, a well-known Argentine intellectual, suggested that Bolivians had just elected “a President committed to the construction of a socialist future for his country.” For Mexican radical Ana Esther Ceceña, the continuation of the Morales–García Linera administration for an additional four years signified an opportunity to “deepen a creative pathway which does not repeat the exhausted roads of developmentalism,” but rather “invents fresh pathways” toward the “conceptualization and construction of no-capitalism.” She asks, rhetorically: “Will Bolivia be the example which offers the key for beginning that new era of humanity, the era of living well [vivir bien] in no-capitalism?”
→ read full articleUnited Nations Emits Report of “Harmony with Nature” Bolivia’s Initiative
Pía Figueroa – Pressenza International Press Agency, 6 Sep 2010
“The present technological era has meant an impoverishment of the relationship of human beings with nature”. This is one of the conclusions of the report “Harmony with Nature” that United Nations General Secretary will present to the General Assembly as a Bolivian initiative, that counts with the sponsorship of other 61 countries.
→ read full articleBolivia Throws Down Gauntlet, Demands Real Climate Action
Max Ajl – Truthout, 10 May 2010
Is this feasible? Probably, yes. But even if it proves impossible, at least someone is trying, even if they are dreamers. At least the future of the earth is on some leaders’ agendas. At least the future of the earth is on some people’s agenda. The Cochabamba Conference, impelled by a globalized and surging social movement demanding a livable Earth, has thrown down the gauntlet. Hopefully, we will pick it up before gun turrets stud our electrified steel frontier with Mexico, to be built circa 2030 when the Mexican agricultural system collapses under heat stress. That is the world of the future: a dead world of walls. I’m with Morales and Pachamama.
→ read full articleBolivia’s Fight for Survival Can Help Save Democracy Too
Naomi Klein – The Guardian, 26 Apr 2010
The people’s summit to tackle climate change is a radical, transformative response to the failure of the Copenhagen club.
→ read full articleMessage to Bolivia: Nature’s Rights Are Also Human Rights
Eduardo Galeano – Znet, 26 Apr 2010
Message of the author of the Open Veins of Latin America to participants of the First World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba from April 19 to 22, as an alternative to the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.
→ read full article(Castellano) Cumbre Sobre Cambio Climático en Bolivia Supera Nivel Previsto de Participación
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Apr 2010
A la localidad de Tiquipaya, a 15 kilómetros de Cochabamba, han arribado delegaciones compuestas por unas 22 mil personas procedentes de 92 países para participar en la Conferencia.
→ read full articleBOLIVIA CREATES A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR CLIMATE TALKS THAT FAILED AT COPENHAGEN
Pablo Solón - The Guardian, 26 Mar 2010
Bolivia will host an international meeting on climate change next month because it is not prepared to ‘betray its people.’In the aftermath of the Copenhagen climate conference, those who defended the widely condemned outcome tended to talk about it as a "step in the right direction". This was always a tendentious argument, given that tackling […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA, A BEACON OF HOPE
Matt Kennard – The Guardian, 9 Mar 2010
The inspiring example of Evo Morales’s Bolivian government. There’s a game I’ve been playing recently. Any time I read the news and get depressed about the parlous state of our world, I type "Bolivia" into Google news and wait for the results. It’s really all you need to brighten up your day. In the last […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA LEADER CALLS ALTERNATIVE CLIMATE MEETING
AP – New York Times, 9 Jan 2010
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday [5 Jan 2010] he’s inviting activists, scientists and government officials from around the world to an alternative climate conference following the failure of a summit in Copenhagen to produce binding agreements. The leftist leader said the April 20-22 meeting in Cochabamba will include indigenous […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA: REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
The Guardian – Editorial, Dec 8 2009, 10 Dec 2009
President Evo Morales won a stunning victory in Bolivia yesterday, taking 63% of the popular vote and guiding his party to win control of congress. Bolivia’s first indigenous president has won the biggest popular mandate in recent memory, destroying three political parties that rotated the presidency between them for the last two decades. In doing […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA RE-INVENTS DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THE LEAD
Judy Rebick - Rabble, 18 Nov 2009
On December 6, Bolivia will hold a general election where Evo Morales, the first Indigenous President in South America will no doubt be re-elected. His party, the MAS, has recently released an election programme that Susan Harvie has kindly summarized and translated. Bolivia is reinventing democractic socialism. They are in the process of creating […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA, THE NON-VIOLENT REVOLUTION
Gabriela Amaya, 21 Sep 2009
In this article, the author analyses some of the factors that establish the “Bolivian Process”, led by President Evo Morales, as a peaceful, non-violent humanist process. A new revolutionary constitution that extends rights to more Bolivian citizens at home and abroad and Morales’ response to conflictive situation corroborate this assessment.When Evo Morales announced his support […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) BOLÍVIA: UNIVERSIDADE INDÍGENA SERÁ INAUGURADA NO PRÓXIMO SÁBADO
Prensa Latina, 10 Apr 2009
Chimoré (Cochabamba) 10/Abril/09 – Segundo o diário Los Tiempos outros centros desse tipo estão sendo construídos nos povoados de Warisata (La Paz) e em Machareti (Chuquisaca). Aguilar explicou à estatal Rádio Pátria Nova que a cerimônia central se realizará em Chimoré mas que as universidades de Warisata e Macharetí estarão unidas em uma teleconferência. Segundo […]
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Sara Miller Llana - Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan 2009
A new constitution approved handily Sunday also risks dividing the nation. Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, easily won his campaign for a new constitution Sunday – promising vast new powers to the country’s indigenous majority and bolstering his political clout. Critics say Mr. Morales is dangerously dividing the nation and merely following […]
→ read full articleFull Moon Over Bolivia
Johan Galtung, 17 Nov 2008
La Paz-Santa Cruz 17/Nov/08 A full moon illuminates the mountains, the altiplano, and that vertical capital La Paz, as well as the plains around Santa Cruz, center of the four (of nine) departments of the medialuna, half moon shaped, part demanding autonomía from La Paz, and for municipalities. Deep polarization and serious violence. Why? History, […]
→ read full articleREFOUNDING BOLIVIA: MORALES CALLS FOR VOTE ON A NEW DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION
Raul Burbano, 17 Oct 2008
Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for a national referendum on the country’s new draft constitution on December 7. The demand of the Bolivian people for a new and socially, politically and economically inclusive constitution is at the heart of the present political upheaval in that country. Right-wing forces representing the country’s traditional ruling oligarchy […]
→ read full articleThe Destabilization of Bolivia and the “Kosovo Option”
Michel Chossudovsky, 30 Sep 2008
The secession of Bolivia’s Eastern provinces is part of a US sponsored covert operation, coordinated out of the US State Department, in liaison with US intelligence. The death squads armed with automatic weapons responsible for killing supporters of Evo Morales in El Porvenir are supported covertly by the US. According to one report, "USAID has […]
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UN Arms Embargo on Israel: Dead on Arrival
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the United Nations imposes sanctions or penalizes a member state – be it the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council – the resolutions are “non-binding” and often remain unimplemented. But the Security Council resolutions are “binding.”
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Everybody Wants to Join BRICS
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – The world is changing, but Washington remains frozen and indeed left behind in its post-1991 delusion as the unipolar global godfather.
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Sinews of Peace
Michael Brenner, Vladimir Putin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024 – This is a highly classified transcript of remarks made by Vladimir Putin to a select audience of Russian elites at the Kremlin. The secret conclave was held in Jun 2021 on the eve of his meeting with Joe Biden.
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For Good News Look to BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – We can look forward to more bad news. No matter who wins the election in the US, the results will be disastrous for the US empire, including Europe. And no matter who gets attacked next in Israel’s war against the world, they are likely to get more death and destruction.
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The BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Manifesto for a Rational World Order
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – There is hope in the air, a certain optimism that we can gradually change the paradigm, marshal the world disorder, move away from bloc-mentality, abandon confrontational politics, phase out dependence on the US-dollar,…
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Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Yahya Sinwar: Freedom Fighters
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
In 1959, Che visited Gaza and transformed the Zionist colonization into a global struggle against colonialism. Mandela said, “But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. “
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Why Brazil Opposes Venezuela Joining BRICS
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
The Brazilian government’s advisor for international affairs, Celso Amorim, announced on 21 Oct that Brazil would seek to prevent Venezuela from joining BRICS. The instruction came from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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BRICS Expands to 13 ‘Partner Countries’ at Historic Summit in Kazan, Russia
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
27 Oct 2024 – BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting.
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(Italiano) Sud globale: Il cambio-marce assistito
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024
18 Settembre 2024 – Arriva il Sud Globale con – o si spera senza – una voglia di rivalsa.
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Why Nations Are Rushing to Join BRICS+
Monica Johnson | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – Comprising in 2009 of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, BRICS added Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in 2024. BRICS+ now: 45% of world’s population, 25% of global trade, 40% of global oil production, 28% of world’s GDP, and more than one-third of global GDP in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
→ read full articleThe Power-Shift to the Global South
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024
The Global South is coming, with or–hopefully without–a vengeance. Look at the basic facts in the power distribution.
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Interrogating the Venezuelan Victory of Nicolás Maduro
Murat Sofuoglu | Richard Falk/Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024
6 Aug 2024 – “If Maduro manages to hold on, and especially if he gains support from Brazil and other moderate governments, it will be interpreted as a setback for ideologically motivated US coercive diplomacy, including an effort to exert political influence by imposing sanctions unilaterally,” Richard Falk said.
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An Attack on Venezuela’s Democracy
Leonardo Flores | CodePink - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024
The reactionary attacks on Venezuela are accelerating, including the propaganda by the corporate press. The accusations are coming out faster than anyone can counter them.
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Hegemony or Bust
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024
Hegemony. The term holds a central place in the present discourse about the United States’ place in the world: what it has been, its sustainability, and alternative ways of formulating the country’s national interests.
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The Impending Collapse of the U.S. Empire
Chris Hedges | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – The world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of U.S. racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, Matt Kennard’s book reveals.
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Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024
23 Jun 2024 – It’s not that there are no alternatives. The alternatives just aren’t being taken. That’s dangerous. So if you ask what the world is going to look like, it’s not a pretty picture. Unless people do something about it. We always can.
→ read full articleThe US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony.
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Time to Renew an Old Promise? A Brief History of Global South Solidarity with Palestine
Bidisha Biswas | The Cairo Review of Global Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2024
Spring 2024 – Anti-colonial and post-colonial politics have shaped global understandings of the Israel-Palestine conflict for decades, beyond the narrow vision of many Western countries.
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Latin America: From the Struggle for Independence (1808) to the Great War (1914)
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024 – From the political point of view, the 19th century in Latin America started in 1808 when the emancipation of its peoples from foreign (Spanish & Portuguese) rule started (and finished in 1826), and was over with the beginning of the Great War in Europe, 1914.
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The Nation’s Conscience
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – The courageous stance of students across the US in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. The genocide has awakened a sleeping giant. Let us pray the giant prevails.
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Bio-Imperialism vs. Bio-Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
Seeds are the connections between our lives, our food, our health and our freedom; the first link in the food chain. The cultivation of seeds and their free exchange is the foundation of our biodiversity and our food security. To have control over seeds is to have control over our lives, our food and our freedom.
→ read full articleThe West vs. the Rest
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024
30 Apr 2024 – Is the West launching an all-out war against global ‘South,’ against the BRICS – plus, against the ‘other’? Are we in the first stages of a civilizational struggle initiated by the U.S.-led assemblage we call the “collective West”? That would have seemed an absurd idea until very recently.
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A Brief History of Kill Lists from Langley to Lavender
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 – On Israel’s use of AI-generated kill lists in the Gaza genocide, and the CIA’s kill lists of thousands in country after country. How Israel’s Lavender is just the latest of the U.S. and its allies’ ever-increasing use of information technology to automate mass murder.
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