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April 24, 2008
BBC News
    LatAm leaders reject Bolivia bid -- Leaders from four Latin American countries have rejected a controversial autonomy bid by a region of Bolivia.
 
March 08, 2008
BBC News
   Setback to Bolivian reform plan -- Bolivian President Evo Morales has suffered a major setback in his plans to give the country a new constitution to favour the indigenous majority.
 
December 10, 2007
Indian Country Today
   U.N. declaration becomes law of the land in Bolivia -- LA PAZ, Bolivia - On Nov. 7, in the Government Palace of Bolivia and surrounded by cheering Native leaders and other representatives, President Evo Morales announced the passage of National Law 3760 or the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, legislation that is an exact copy of the United Nation's recently passed Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
 
October 19, 2007
BBC World News
   Bolivian troops 'avoid clashes' -- Bolivian troops have withdrawn from the country's busiest airport to avoid new clashes with hundreds of citizens, the authorities have said.
 
October 18, 2007
BBC World News
   Genocide case for Bolivia ex-head -- Bolivian prosecutors have brought formal charges of genocide against the country's exiled former president, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
 
October 17, 2007
Upside Down World
   Bolivian Political Forces Negotiate Constitutional Deadlock -- Bolivia’s Constitutional Assembly has struggled to complete its mandate, to rewrite the nation’s constitution and ‘refound’ Bolivia.
 
October 07, 2007
Upside Down World
   Bolivians seek world market for coca cures -- Bolivia - Among the many brick buildings along a bleak plain in this impoverished city, four brothers mix medicinal syrups and creams from coca leaf, the raw ingredient of cocaine.
 
October 04, 2007
Andean Information Network
   US Civil Case Brought Against Bolivian Ex-President -- On September 26, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed civil lawsuits against Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, former president of Bolivia, and his ex-minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín on behalf of ten families of victims of the Black October massacre in 2003.(1) The suits charge the two men with extrajudicial killings and crimes against humanity, and will seek monetary compensation for the affected families. The case represents another opportunity for justice and to provide closure for all Bolivians.
 
October 01, 2007
Common Dreams
   Bolivia’s Evo Morales Wins Hearts and Minds in U.S. -- While Iranian President Ahmedinejad stole the headlines during the United Nations meeting last week in New York, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales — a humble coca farmer, former llama herder and union organizer — stole the hearts of the American people.
 
September 29, 2007
International Herald Tribune
   Bolivia's racial, geographical divide sharpens with shots in air and talk of civil war -- SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia: Miguel Roda fires four shots into the palm trees and imagines a civil war.
 
August 22, 2007
BBC World News
   More than 18 months after being elected president of Bolivia, Evo Morales defends his record and tells Lola Almudevar in La Paz that more change is to come. -- Morales defends Bolivia changes
 
June 27, 2007
BBC World News
   Bolivia has taken full control of two oil refineries from the Brazilian state-owned energy company, Petrobras, after a compensation deal last month. -- Bolivia reclaims oil refineries
 
May 12, 2007
International Herald Tribune
   Bolivia's Morales vows to more forward with energy nationalization -- President Evo Morales vowed to move forward with his campaign to nationalize Bolivia's oil and gas industry with the transfer of two Brazilian-owned oil refineries to state hands...
 
February 26, 2007
BBC NEWS
   Bolivia city faces 'flood threat' -- The Bolivian government is studying the possibility of evacuating tens of thousands of people from the city of Trinidad due to large-scale flooding.
 
January 01, 2007
Amnesty International
   Amnesty International Report on Bolivia 2007 -- Head of state and government: Evo Morales Ayma (replaced Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé in January) Death penalty: abolitionist for ordinary crimes International Criminal Court: ratified Peasants were killed during a joint security force operation to eradicate coca crops. There were demonstrations calling for the right to land. Deaths were reported during violent clashes between miners. Prison conditions were poor.
 
November 29, 2006
International Herald Tribune
   Bolivian Senate ratifies military pact with Venezuela, approves oil contracts -- Bolivia's Senate ratified a military agreement with Venezuela. The treaty would create closer ties between the armed forces of the two leftist governments.
 
November 29, 2006
Houston Chronicle
   Bolivia Ratifies Nationalization Deals -- Bolivia's Senate approved nationalization contracts with foreign oil companies during a hastily called session that ended early Wednesday morning. The agreements grant Morales' government a majority share of foreign companies' revenues generated in Bolivia as well as control over their operations in the country.
 
November 29, 2006
Associated Press
   Bolivian Senate OKs Sweeping Land Reform -- Bolivia's leftist president won passage of an ambitious land redistribution bill and signed it into law to the cheers of impoverished Indian supporters, who stand to benefit from what eventually could be the confiscation of private holdings the size of Nebraska.
 
August 22, 2006
Inter Press Service
   Rewriting the Constitution to Reflect the Country's True Colours -- A vigorous voice speaking in Quechua is answered by another speaking in Aymara as Bolivia's constituent assembly begins to rewrite the constitution under the government of Evo Morales, the country's first-ever indigenous president.
 
August 08, 2006
Upside Down World
   The Rebirth of Bolivia in a Constituent Assembly: Is this what democracy looks like? -- A Bolivian woman and water advocate said this during a three-day community water meeting held in June. Many of the participants at the meeting had been on the front lines of "water wars," fighting in the streets against the privatization of their water systems by multinational corporations. Similar to myriad social movement groups throughout the country, these women had gathered not only to share stories and lessons learned in their ongoing local battles, but to craft a concrete proposal for the right to water to be included in Bolivia's new constitution.
 
August 07, 2006
Inter Press Service
   Colourful Kick-Off to a "New" Bolivia -- Indigenous people, who have suffered discrimination since Bolivia won its independence from Spain 181 years ago, represent a majority in the new constituent assembly based in Sucre, which President Evo Morales has put in charge of "refounding" South America's poorest country.
 
August 04, 2006
The Washington Post
   Advocates Say U.S. Bars Many Academics -- When Waskar Ari traveled to Bolivia last year, after completing a doctorate at Georgetown University, he meant to stay there for 10 days. The historian was due back last fall to start a professorship at the University of Nebraska. A year later, he is still waiting to return.
 
July 11, 2006
Upside Down World
   Bolivia Advocates Alternative Vision for Trade and Integration -- Tens of thousands of Bolivians gathered on June 30th in La Paz’s sprawling Plaza San Francisco in a boisterous show of support for President Evo Morales and his political party, Movement Toward Socialism (MAS).
 
July 03, 2006
Agencia Cubana de Noticias
   Evo Morales Claims Victory of Movement Towards Socialism -- Bolivia's President Evo Morales claimed victory for his governing Movement Towards Socialism Party in elections for delegates to a Constituent Assembly on Sunday.
 
June 17, 2006
Reuters
   Morales opens Chavez-funded coca factory -- LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales visited a coca-growing region on Saturday to open a Venezuelan-funded factory where coca leaves will be made into legal products such as tea and soft drinks.
 
June 12, 2006
Chronicle Foreign Service
   President focuses on eradicating means of making drug, and not on coca farming. -- As Bolivian soldiers torch a pit filled with chemicals and coca leaves used to make cocaine, a fireball shoots toward a jungle canopy. The anti-narcotic task force destroys seven such holes daily in a region known as the Chapare.
 
June 08, 2006
COHA
   A Quantum Leap for U.S.-Bolivian Relations -- Last Tuesday, as reported by the Associated Press, Bolivian President Evo Morales distributed a press release declaring that U.S. authorities were actively working to assassinate him. As of Tuesday, the Bolivian embassy in Washington was reporting that Morales had cancelled his planned trip to the Inter-American Development Bank’s annual conference in Washington next week, where he was scheduled to address the gathering and possibly meet with President Bush. Were the two events connected?
 
June 05, 2006
Upside Down World
   Everyone’s Duty: To Recuperate Our Natural Resources -- From here we will express to Bolivia and the whole world that [this is] the struggle of our people, of the indigenous peoples historically on this land, the struggle of our ancestors such as Tupac Katari, Tupac Amaru and Bartolina Sisa and so many other leaders.
 
May 28, 2006
Time Magazine
   A Voice on the Left -- Since his landslide election win in December, Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, has turned South America's poorest nation into a hemispheric player. His recent nationalization of Bolivia's oil and natural-gas reserves has made him, along with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a leader of a leftist surge in Latin American politics. It has also put Morales at odds with the U.S., which he is scheduled to visit in June. Morales, 46, talked with TIME's Tim Padgett and Jean Friedman-Rudovsky last week at the presidential palace in the Bolivian capital of La Paz.
 
May 22, 2006
Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
   Morales Government Tackles Agrarian Reform -- The government of Evo Morales is tackling the explosive issue of agrarian reform less than three weeks after nationalizing Bolivia’s natural gas and petroleum resources. In a country riveted with glaring land inequities, Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera proclaimed that large tracts of agricultural land would be redistributed to “peasants and indigenous communities.” While “productive lands” will be exempted from expropriation, Garcia stated that this would not be the case for large underutilized holdings, “the latifundias that are gangster-like systems of extortion based on commercial, mercantile and political coercion.”
 


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