Tag: Bolivia
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Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing Coup
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. Based on a preliminary investigation by … Keep reading »
Bolivia: The Coup and the Right-Wing Assaults
Corvin Russell speaks with Kathryn Ledebur of the Andean Information Network and Bret Gustafson of Washington University in St. Louis about the coup, right wing atrocities, and extreme repression currently happening in Bolivia. Keep reading »
Origins of the Crisis: On the Coup in Bolivia
Regarding recent events in Bolivia, some things are simple: Was it a coup? Yes. On Sunday, November 10, the commander-in-chief of Bolivia’s armed forces, General Williams Kaliman, publicly told Evo Morales, a constitutionally elected president, that he ought to resign for the good of the country. There is no other name for this kind of … Keep reading »
Lessons from Bolivia: A View from Cuba
Sad news comes from Bolivia. The coup has been accomplished. Once again, the military has decided the game in our Latin American region, treading on the very Constitution they swore to defend. President Evo Morales and Vice-President Álvaro García Linera resigned. They said it was to avoid further bloodshed. It’s the end of an era … Keep reading »
The coup in Bolivia: Five lessons
Argentine sociologist Atilio Boron offers an important reflection on the coup in Bolivia. Keep reading »
Bolivian Horizons: An Interview with Pablo Solón
Jeffery R. Webber interviews Pablo Solón about the recent elections in Bolivia. Keep reading »
The Pope’s Message in Bolivia and to the World
Report by a Canadian participant In retrospect, it must be said that the College of Cardinals made an astute decision in 2013 when they chose Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as the Vicar of Christ. Pope Francis, as he is now called, has emerged as a world leader in speaking out on the major social and … Keep reading »
Bolivia’s Voters Reaffirm ‘Process of Change’
But Issue Warnings to the Governing MAS Up to 90 per cent of the electorate voted in Bolivia’s “subnational” elections March 29 for governors, mayors and departmental assembly and municipal council members throughout the country. These were the second such elections to be held since the new Constitution came into force in 2009, the first being … Keep reading »
Bolivia: Burdens of a State Manager
In the opening salvos of Latin America’s uneven lurch to the Left in the early twenty-first century, Bolivia distinguished itself as the region’s most radical socio-political terrain.[1] Left-indigenous movements in the countryside and cityscapes alike threw the state into crisis and brought two successive neoliberal presidents to their knees – Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada in … Keep reading »
Bolivia’s Mine Nationalization of South American Silver in Mallku Khota
On July 7th, 2012 the Bolivian police launched a rescue operation to recover hostages that were being detained by some indigenous community members opposed to South American Silver’s exploration operations in their territories. Despite initial claims made by the police and government about the nature of the death and the other injuries that resulted, it … Keep reading »
Mallku Khota
A Briefing on South American Silver’s Actions in Bolivia Prepared by Celia Garces in conjunction with CEDIB, Cochabamba The indigenous community of Mallku Khota is in a state of emergency for resisting the continued operations of South American Silver Corporation‘s (SASC) subsidiary, Compañía Minera Mallku Khota (CMMK). On May 28th, 2012, the governor of Potosi pleaded to … Keep reading »
The Suspension of Elections in Bolivia and Left Strategy
The small Andean nation hit the news again on October 31 with the announcement that elections originally scheduled for December 2005 are postponed indefinitely. This most recent political crisis has clearly been orchestrated by the agro-industrialist elite from Santa Cruz, who is using procedural rules to thwart the move towards the deepening of democracy. The … Keep reading »