CLASS

By Andres Schipani
BBC News, La Paz
In the early 19th Century, Bolivian women fought alongside men for the country’s independence from colonial Spain. They stormed into battle on horseback, seized cities and were on the frontline.
But their presence on the battlefield did not translate into presence in the political life of their nation. [...]

LA PAZ – The president of the United Nations General Assembly, Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, on Saturday declared Bolivian President Evo Morales as “World Hero of Mother Earth” in a ceremony at the presidential palace in this capital.

With a medal and a parchment scroll, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization named Morales “the [...]

Telesur, September 13, 2009 - Bolivian president Evo Morales said this Sunday in Spain that wherever US military bases exists, so do coups. He asked the social movements of Europe and the world to help put an end to foreign military bases in Latin America.
“In Latin America, wherever a US base exists, there are [...]

La Paz, 5 ago (PL) Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that he would ask the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to reject the installation of foreign military bases in Latin America, following a meeting with his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe.
“We will take a proposed resolution to the UNASUR meeting rejecting the presence of any [...]

Solidarity rally with Honduras Part 2-3
Solidarity rally with Honduras Part 3-3
Solidarity rally with the people of Honduras was held on July 4 in Melbourne. It was organised by the sponsoring organisations of the 2009 Latin America Solidarity Conference.
For more information please visit www.solidarityconference2009.org

8am AEST

By Roberto Jorquera
www.directaction.org.au
President Manuel Zelaya is attempting to return to Honduras together with Miquel D’Escotto President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Zelaya flew in from Washington after a meeting of the Organisation of American States (OAS) that suspended the membership of Honduras. At the same time another delegation led by the [...]

April 16, 2009 – During his intervention at the VII ALBA Summit, Bolivian president Evo Morales recalled the 1962 documents of the Organisation of American States (OAS) that resulted in Cuba being expelled from the organization, and outlined the importance of reflecting over the motives of that expulsion.

From Venezuela’s Communal Councils, to Brazil’s Participatory Budgeting; from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere- This documentary is a journey, which takes us across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? Directed by Sílvia Leindecker & Michael Fox. [...]

Sometimes I have thought that I would not have to write the following day and that I could rather use part of the time to read and study, as I have often done. But, the significant events of the past few weeks related to the world economy and politics, and the developments in Bolivia have [...]

Emily P. Achtenberg
Bolivia’s Vice Minister for Housing, Ramiro Rivera, had been on the job only two weeks last March when his office was occupied by 100 angry members of the Ponchos Rojos (Red Ponchos), a militant Aymara peasant group. Three weeks later, wheelbarrow porters from the Abastos market in Santa Cruz staged a similar protest. [...]