Bolivia

• A New Climate Movement in Bolivia

  by Naomi Klein

  25 April 2010

  Cochabamba, Bolivia It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to make his main point: to fight climate change, "we need to recover the values of the indigenous people." Yet wealthy countries have little interest in learning these lessons and are instead pushing through a plan that at its best (...)

• Earth day in Bolivia

  From Copenhagen to Cancun, Indigenous Peoples Vow to Defend the “Rights of Mother Earth” Condemn Predatory ‘REDD’ Forest Programs

  24 April 2010

  Cochabamba, Bolivia– As Earth Day celebrations commence around the world, Indigenous Peoples from across the Americas are in Cochabamba, Bolivia today to close the historic conference on climate change and the “Rights of Mother Earth” hosted by President Evo Morales. Morales, the only Indigenous Head of State in the world, called this conference in the wake of failed climate talks in Copenhagen. As the world prepares for the next round of talks in Cancún, Mexico, Indigenous Peoples vowed today (...)

• The ABC’s of Climate Negotiations

  by Jason Negrón-Gonzales

  22 April 2010

  Cochabamba, Bolivia Here at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, I Just took in a panel on the ABC’s of Climate Negotiations featuring the negotiators present in Copenhagen representing Cuba and Bolivia, and an activist and policy expert from the Third World Network. They managed to lay things out clearly on what happened in Copenhagen, the US-led Copenhagen Accord, and their position on the negotiations now. Some core points: 1. The key question (...)

• Peoples World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights, 19-22 April 2010, Cochabamba, Bolivia

  17 April 2010

  On 18-19 December in Copenhagen, a handful of governments opposed the text presented by the United States, China, Brazil, India and South Africa. Among those few Bolivia, represented by President Evo Morales, strongly condemned the agreement both on the process (the text was discussed in small groups outside of the UN) and on the content, which fell far short of anything close to what the IPCC recommended, did not include any constraints on emissions, or financing commitments for the South. (...)

• Is Bolivia heading for Andean- Amazonian capitalism?

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  9 March 2010

  In spite of its considerable natural resources, this country of 10 million inhabitants is one of the poorest in Latin America. In 1952 Bolivia went through a major revolutionary upheaval leading to land reform, nationalization of mines, free, compulsory education and universal suffrage. From 1971 to 1978, Bolivia was under the iron rule of Hugo Banzer’s military regime. From 1985 on, the worst kind of neo-liberal policies were enforced on the country. To bring 20 years of such policies to an (...)

• We must support a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth

  by Pablo Solón, Cormac Cullinan

  9 January 2010

  For Bolivia, December marked an important and historic step forward in climate change politics. We are of course not referring to Brokenhagen, where we saw the worst of intransigent, undemocratic and cynical tactics from the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide. The interesting action happened in a completely unreported event in New York when on 22 December, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution which put the issue of Mother Earth rights as an item on the UN agenda. This might (...)

• Indigenous Peoples Rising

  by James D. Cockcroft

  26 January 2009

  Indigenous peoples in Indo-Afro-Latin America, especially Bolivia and Ecuador, are rising up to take control of their own lives and act in solidarity with others to save the planet. They reflect the important role of social movements in the current epoch of globalization, development, and neo-liberalism’s ideological collapse. They are key participants in the new economic and political integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. They are calling for new, yet ancient, practices of (...)

• Characteristics of the experiences underway in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  4 July 2008

  In Latin America, if we exclude Cuba, we can point to three general categories of governments. First, the governments of the right, the allies of Washington, that play an active role in the region and occupy a strategic position: these are the governments of Álvaro Uribe in Colombia, Alan García in Peru and Felipe Calderón in México. Second, we find supposed "left" governments that implement a neoliberal policy and support the national or regional bourgeoisies in their projects: Brazil, (...)

• Regarding "The Return Directive"

  by Evo Morales Ayma

  17 June 2008

  Until the end of the Second World War, Europe was a continent of emigrants. Tens of millions of Europeans came to the Americas to colonize, escape hunger, financial crisis, wars, European totalitarianisms and the persecutions of ethnic minorities. Today, I am following with deep concern the approval process of the so-called "Return Directive". The text, validated on June the 5th by the Home Affairs Ministers of the 27 European Union countries, has to be voted on June 18th in the European (...)

• Alternative financing for development: Venezuela and ALBA

  by Alejandro Bendaña

  22 May 2008

  If the goal is development — best defined as sovereign democratic social transformation — then we must not speak of making the present "aid" modalities more effective, but of substituting present day aid and the system in which it unfolds. One begins by questioning the very nature of the larger international financial architecture, what it stands for, and who benefits primarily from it. "Development aid" as practiced by the North is part of a system that generates deepening inequality and (...)

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