Bolivia
Bolivia: From water war to gas war
Big business sabotage industry
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Bolivia: mass protests demand right-wing Prefect’s resignation
Two weeks of intense mobilisations, protests, and street blockades calling for the resignation of right-wing departmental Prefect (elected head of the regional administration), Manfred Reyes Villa, culminated in a popular assembly on January 16th in […]
Bolivia
Bolivia: As political tensions rage in Bolivia, protesters wage battle with police
On Monday, November 27, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba’s municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police.
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Bolivia: Bolivian Politics Heating Up Once Again
Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come […]
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Bolivia: Evo Morales’ action on oil and gas
When Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced, on 1 May, a decree that ‘nationalised’ the oil and gas (the ‘hydrocarbons’) resources, he sent a shockwave around the world.
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Bolivia: Morales takes on Big Oil
"The Spanish, the North Americans, the Europeans looted the tin, the silver and the natural resources. We should recognise that in 1937, under the leadership of the armed forces, petroleum was nationalised for the first […]
Bolivia
Latin America: Bolivian elections reflect continental revolt against neo-liberalism
Evo Morales of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) was sworn in as President of Bolivia this week. (6,000 words).
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Bolivia: Morales heads for office
Elections show rejection of neo-liberal policies and hatred of imperialism on the Latin American continent
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Bolivia: After the uprising
The mass protest movements against neo-liberal policies that swept Bolivia with strikes and demos have ousted president Carlos Mesa.
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Bolivia: May Day protests over corporations’ exploitation of natural resources
Inspiring demonstration of unions, miners, women, minorities and youth