January 05, 2010
China View
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| | Bolivia proposes world conference on climate change
-- Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday called for a world conference to discuss the effects of climate change and ways to tackle it. |
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December 17, 2009
Democracy Now!
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| | Bolivian President Evo Morales on Climate Debt, Capitalism, Why He Wants a Tribunal for Climate Justice and Much More
-- Bolivian President Evo Morales joins us in Copenhagen to talk about the UN climate talks, capitalism, climate debt and much more. “Policies of unlimited industrialization are what destroys the environment,” Morales said. “And that irrational industrialization is capitalism.” |
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December 13, 2009
The New York Times
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| | In Bolivia, Water and Ice Tell of Climate Change
-- The glaciers that have long provided water and electricity to this part of Bolivia are melting and disappearing, victims of global warming, most scientists say. |
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December 07, 2009
Upside Down World
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| | The Speed of Change: Bolivian President Morales Empowered by Re-Election
-- Bolivian President Evo Morales was re-elected on Sunday, December 6th in a landslide victory. Following the election, Morales said, "The people, with their participation, showed once again that it’s possible to change Bolivia… We have the responsibility to deepen and accelerate this process of change." |
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November 30, 2009
Upside Down World
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| | Bolivia: Women Clamour for Right to Land
-- Despite major advances in land distribution in Bolivia, single, widowed and undocumented women in this South American country have little chances of owning rural lands due to the patriarchal traditions and customary practices of indigenous peoples, in violation of international instruments and conventions protecting women’s rights. |
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September 15, 2009
Upside Down World
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| | Bolivia: A Presidential Race with a Foregone Conclusion
-- President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García are set to handily win the Dec. 6 elections in Bolivia, against a fragmented opposition. A second term for Morales would give the Movement to Socialism (MAS) a chance to consolidate what it has called the "re-founding" of the Bolivian state on the basis of greater participation by indigenous people and a strengthening of their rights. |
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May 14, 2009
Toward Freedom
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| | Diplomacy Underground: Tunnel Proposed to Grant Bolivia Access to Sea
-- In the bloody War of the Pacific in 1879, Chile took away Bolivia’s only access to the sea. Over a century later, a recently proposed solution to this diplomatic crisis seems to be straight out of a science fiction novel: the construction of 150 kilometer tunnel from Bolivia to an artificial island in the Pacific Ocean. |
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February 07, 2009
Upside Down World
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| | Bolivia: Morales Enacts New Constitution in El Alto
-- Social movements from around the country marched into El Alto to mark the official passage of Bolivia’s new constitution. |
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April 24, 2008
BBC News
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| | LatAm leaders reject Bolivia bid
-- Leaders from four Latin American countries have rejected a controversial autonomy bid by a region of Bolivia. |
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March 08, 2008
BBC News
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| | 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.
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December 10, 2007
Indian Country Today
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| | 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. |
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October 19, 2007
BBC World News
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| | 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. |
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October 18, 2007
BBC World News
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| | 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 |
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October 17, 2007
Upside Down World
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| | 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. |
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October 07, 2007
Upside Down World
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| | 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. |
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October 04, 2007
Andean Information Network
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| | 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.
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October 01, 2007
Common Dreams
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| | 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. |
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September 29, 2007
International Herald Tribune
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| | 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. |
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August 22, 2007
BBC World News
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| | 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 |
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June 27, 2007
BBC World News
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| | 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 |
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May 12, 2007
International Herald Tribune
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| | 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... |
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February 26, 2007
BBC NEWS
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| | 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. |
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January 01, 2007
Amnesty International
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| | 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. |
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November 29, 2006
International Herald Tribune
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| | 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. |
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November 29, 2006
Houston Chronicle
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| | 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.
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November 29, 2006
Associated Press
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| | 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. |
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August 22, 2006
Inter Press Service
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| | 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. |
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August 08, 2006
Upside Down World
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| | 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. |
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August 07, 2006
Inter Press Service
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| | 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. |
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August 04, 2006
The Washington Post
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| | 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. |
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