Bolivia

Evo Morales: An Indian out of place

2 January 2020 - by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

The dramatic events in Bolivia in recent months have followed an imperial script that Latin Americans are becoming more and more familiar with, and which consists in paving the way for the replacing of a democratic government deemed hostile to the interests of the United States (or rather, of (...)
Pablo Solón targeted: The Bolivian Government Must Stop Persecuting Those Defending Nature and Rights and Address the Real Problems

10 July 2017 - by Focus on the Global South

Pablo Solón, the Director of Fundación Solón, former Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, and former Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), is being targeted by the Bolivian government for his vocal criticism of the government and the construction of two hydro-electric (...)
Letter of support to the anti-imperialist Summit in Bolivia

3 August 2013 - by CETIM

The Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM) wishes to express its solidarity with the Bolivian people and with their President, Evo Morales, following his sequestration in Europe on 2 July 2013. The presidential plane of the Pluri-national State of Bolivia was forbidden flight over French, Spanish, (...)
Grounding of Bolivian presidential jet and treatment of Snowden shames European Union

Over 50 international lawyers, human rights, civil rights and civil society groups and networks say the actions of certain EU member states in response to Snowden’s revelations contradict the EU’s stated commitment to democracy, human rights and international law. The refusal of entry into (...)
A New Climate Movement in Bolivia

25 April 2010 - by Naomi Klein

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

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 (...)
The ABC’s of Climate Negotiations

22 April 2010 - by Jason Negrón-Gonzales

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

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 (...)
Is Bolivia heading for Andean- Amazonian capitalism?

9 March 2010 - by Eric Toussaint

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 (...)
We must support a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth

9 January 2010 - by Cormac Cullinan , Pablo Solón

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 (...)
Indigenous Peoples Rising

26 January 2009 - by James D. Cockcroft

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 (...)
Characteristics of the experiences underway in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia

4 July 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

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 (...)
Regarding “The Return Directive”

17 June 2008 - by Evo Morales Ayma

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 (...)
International civil society organisations protest Telecom Italia’s new attacks and confiscatory measures against Bolivia

16 May 2008 - by People’s Social Summit

Civil society organisations meeting in the People’s Social Summit in Lima denounce the recent decision of ETI and Telecom Italia this month to demand that the New York State Court freeze the accounts of the National Telecommunications Company (ENTEL) as part of a strategy of aggression against (...)
Evo Morales’ 10 Commandments to save the Planet

Bolivian President Evo Morales said today that to save the planet requires putting an end to the capitalist model and for the North to pay its Ecological Debt. This was the first of 10 points presented by Morales at the inauguration of the UN’s VII Indigenous Forum, in a long address acclaimed (...)
The Conspiracy to Divide Bolivia Must Be Denounced

The process of changes in favor of the Bolivian majority is at risk of being brutally restrained. The rise to power of an Indigenous president with unprecedented support in that country and his programs of popular benefits and recovery of the natural resources have had to face the conspiracies (...)
Chomsky: Poorer Countries Find a Way to Escape U.S. Dominance

1 March 2008 - by Michael Shank

The famous critic lays out the emerging alternatives to the U.S.-dominated international financial institutions of the last century.
Bolivia: Breakthroughs on common goods and constitutional reform

30 January 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

[1] [2] With its 10 million inhabitants Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. La Paz, its ’capital city’ [3] is located at some 3,600 meters above sea level. The country consists of three geographical areas: highlands in the west, actually in the Andes mountains near Peru (...)
CIADI/Telecom Italia: ¡hands off Bolivia!

“Some multinational companies take over our natural resources, privatize basic services, fail to pay taxes and then, when they have no arguments in their defense, they go to the so-called ICSID. And then, in that World Bank tribunal, no country wins against the multinationals. So why do we need (...)
Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua withdraw together from the ICSID

DECISION OF ALBA-PTA ON ICSID Member countries (Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua) of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and Peoples’ Trade Agreements (PTA) have emphatically rejected legal, diplomatic and media pressure exercised by some multinational companies, which having (...)
A Well of Hypocrisy

21 July 2006 - by George Monbiot

One man uses gas and oil money to help the poor. The other uses it to buy guns. Guess who gets vilified...
Stiglitz: Those Who Must Be Compensated Are the Bolivians, Not the Companies

6 June 2006 - by Rosa Rojas

The manner in which Bolivia negotiates with the affected companies will be the key factor, according to the financial organization. The failure of the neoliberal model imposed by the US is evident, maintains the Nobel laureate in (...)