Bolivia: USAID Out, Morales In For Re-Election Bid (NACLA)
Emily Achtenberg, NACLA, Rebel Currents, Link to original article, 11 May 2013 On May 1, President Evo Morales expelled USAID from Bolivia for allegedly fomenting divisions within the country’s social movements in order to destabilize his government. The announcement came just days after Bolivia’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled that Morales can run for a third presidential term in … Read more
Bolivia: TIPNIS Road On Hold Until Extreme Poverty Eliminated (NACLA)
Emily Achtenberg, NACLA, Rebel Currents, Link to original article, 25 April 2013 Bolivian President Evo Morales has promised to eliminate extreme poverty in the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), before taking any further steps to design, fund, and build the controversial highway that would bisect the reserve. The decision is expected to put the highway … Read more
Bolivia: The Unfinished Business of Land Reform (NACLA)
Emily Achtenberg, NACLA, Rebel Currents, Link to original article, 1 April 2013 Land reform in Bolivia, and the promise of land redistribution from wealthy latifundistas and agrobusiness elites to poor farmers and indigenous communities, has been a hallmark of President Evo Morales’s administration. Recent data from the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) provide a useful picture of what the Morales government … Read more
New law mandates harsh penalties and broad services to address violence against women in Bolivia (AIN)
By Andean Information Network. Link to original article, 21 March 2013 On March 9th 2013 the Bolivian government passed a new comprehensive and progressive law to combat violence against women. The law includes preventative measures, wide-ranging services to survivors of abuse, and severe penalties for violence against women. The law represents a great advance from previous legislation, which … Read more
Extractive Industries in Bolivia (BIF)
Bolivia Information Forum Read the Special Edition Bulletin on Extractive Industries, March 2013 1. Thinking about extractives: the contribution of Eduardo Gudynas Of those who have written about extractives and extractive industries in recent years, few have been more influential than Eduardo Gudynas, a Uruguayan researcher at the Centro Latinoamericano de Ecología Social (CLAES). The Bolivia Information Forum thought it useful to … Read more
Economic Growth with More Equality: Learning From Bolivia (NACLA)
Emily Achtenberg, NACLA, Rebel Currents, Link to original article, 15 February 2013 Until recently, conventional economic wisdom held that sustained economic growth in any society could only be achieved at the expense of income equality. Today, even free market disciples like The Economist recognize that these goals are not contradictory—and that growing inequality, in fact, is an impediment to … Read more
Bolivia: End of the Road for TIPNIS Consulta (NACLA)
Emily Achtenberg, NACLA, Rebel Currents, Link to original article, 13 December 2012 December 7 marked the formal conclusion of the Bolivian government’s controversial consultation process with communities in the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), to determine the fate of a proposed highway that would bisect their ancestral lands. [Vice President García Linera welcomes support for … Read more
Earth First? Bolivia’s Mother Earth Law Meets the Neo-Extractivist Economy (NACLA)
Emily Achtenberg, NACLA, Rebel Currents, Link to original article, 15 November 2012 While the U. S. courts have granted civil rights to corporations, Bolivia has enacted a new law enshrining the legal rights of nature. The “Law of Mother Earth and Integral Development for Living Well,” promulgated by President Evo Morales on October 15, establishes eleven rights … Read more
Bolivia Enacts New Law for Mother Earth (ICT)
Sara Shahriari, Indian Country Today, Link to original article, 26 October 2012 “Mother Earth is the living dynamic system made up of the indivisible community of all living systems and living beings, interrelated, interdependent and complementary, which share a common destiny. Mother Earth is considered sacred; it feeds and is a home that contains, sustains and reproduces … Read more
Colquiri conflict continues in Bolivia (AIN)
By Andean Information Network. Link to original article, 17 October 2012 In late May 2012, conflict erupted in Colquiri, a mining district about 350km south of La Paz. Salaried and cooperative miners who work in different areas of the same mine struggled to control territory. Although the government, salaried workers, and cooperative miners reached an agreement … Read more
