Activists Thank Countries for Asylum for Snowden
Activists have thanked Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela for offering asylum for Edward Snowden and have delivered a letter to Russia urging President Putin to provide Snowden with travel documents to...
View ArticleS. American States Recall Ambassadors Over Bolivian Plane Incident
“What the United States government is seeking is to obstruct Edward Snowden’s bid to seek asylum. Not to get asylum, but to seek asylum,” Tatchell said. “It has bullied and threatened and menaced other...
View ArticleBolivian President Proposes Taking U.S. to International Tribunal
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, announced yesterday that he will propose UNASUR to bring the US before an international tribunal for human rights violations after his plane was denied airspace in...
View ArticleLatin America Condemns US Espionage at United Nations Security Council
The foreign ministers of Brazil , Venezuela , Uruguay , Bolivia and Ecuador fiercely condemned the United States plan for worldwide espionage, which posed a lethal threat to the democratically elected...
View ArticleAt the UN, A Latin American Rebellion
Without a doubt, the 68th UN General Assembly will be remembered as a watershed. Nations reached an agreement on control of chemical weapons that could avoid a global war in Syria. The volatile...
View ArticleBolivia’s Indigenous Future: A Balance Of Preservation, Protection And...
Evo Morales’s very name seems to suggest his destiny of leading Bolivia in a valiant attempt at ‘moral evolution’ with all other Nation States in tow. Tasked with the difficult role of representing his...
View ArticleIn Bolivia, Being Journalist And Organizer Go Together
Susana Pacara, one of the founders of Radio Lachiwana in Cochabamba, Bolivia, believes that communication work is a key part of the defense of territory. She doesn’t mean this in an abstract way. Over...
View ArticleThe Complicated Extraction Issues In Latin America
A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America....
View ArticleBolivia Shows How To Dismantle Corporate Sovereignty
As Techdirt has reported, corporate sovereignty chapters in TAFTA/TTIP and TPP have emerged as some of the most controversial elements in those agreements. Meanwhile, countries that already have...
View ArticleHow Bolivia Leads The Global Fight Against Climate Disaster
We are “ecosocialists” because the climate crisis now bearing down on us is the major issue facing the world’s peoples. It threatens the very survival of human life. It is directly caused by capitalism...
View ArticleBolivia’s Conamaq Indigenous Movement
Bolivia's Conamaq indigenous movement is currently a major grassroots critic of the policies of the Evo Morales government and its Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party. Because of this critical...
View ArticleFifteen Years Of Community-Controlled Water In Bolivia
By Marina Sitrin in Roar Mag - This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of the victory of the communities of Bolivia over private water corporations. Not only did popular power reverse the plan to...
View ArticlePope Francis Seeks Forgiveness For Crimes Against ‘Native People’
By Al Jazeera - Pope Francis cast himself as the spiritual and political leader of the world's oppressed on Thursday evening with a remarkable mea culpa for the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church...
View ArticleUS Secretly Targeted Evo Morales Of Bolivia
By Ryan Grim and Nick Wing in The Huffington Post - The United States has secretly indicted top officials connected to the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales for their alleged involvement in...
View ArticleNewsletter: Transformation – Elections & Movements
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance - The United States has unusual challenges for movements working in the electoral system. The two party system is deeply embedded in law and...
View ArticleTen Proposals For Chavismo In The Face Of Our Defeat
By Luis Britto Garcia for Venezuela Analysis - There was no popular defeat harder than the 27th of February, 1989*. Rebelling against the economic measures levied by the International Monetary Fund,...
View ArticleA Message Of Hope For The New Year
By Jack Balkwill for Dissident Voice. There have been many victories and we need to celebrate them. Among the victories was stopping the northern portion of the KXL pipeline, various new laws in 24...
View ArticleHorizon Of Evo Morales’ Long Decade In Power
By Benjamin Dangl for Counter Punch - Bolivian President Evo Morales lost the referendum last Sunday that could have given him the ability to run for re-election in 2019. The margin was small, but the...
View ArticleIs South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At An End?
By Claudio Katz for Venezuelanalysis. The progressive cycle arose in popular rebellions that brought down neoliberal governments (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina) or eroded their continuity...
View ArticleThe US Returns To Latin America
By Vijay Prashad for the Hindu and Counterpunch. The financial crisis of 2007-08 dented China’s economy and saw the slow deterioration of commodity prices. It took a few years for the economic impact...
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