Tag: Bolivia
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Bolivia’s Perfect Storm: Pandemic, Economic Crisis, Repressive Coup Regime
Introduction The rising toll of diseased and deceased from the COVID-19 pandemic has hit Bolivia particularly hard, in a continent that is now in the lead in global contagion rates. … Keep reading »
Elon Musk and the Overthrow of Democracy in Bolivia
On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second US “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people.” Someone responded to Musk … Keep reading »
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. … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Keep reading »