Emily Achtenberg writes for NACLA: Why is Evo Morales Reviving Bolivia’s Controversial TIPNIS Road? Six years after massive protests halted plans for a proposed highway through the TIPNIS, Bolivian President Evo Morales has promulgated a new law “de-protecting” the reserve and allowing construction of the road. On August 13, President Evo Morales promulgated a new…
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Bolivia approves controversial highway in Amazon biodiversity hotspot
Dan Collyns reports for The Guardian: Bolivia approves controversial highway in Amazon biodiversity hotspot Major 190-mile road will strip national park and home to thousands of indigenous people of its protected status, making it vulnerable to deforestation. Bolivia has given the go ahead to a controversial highway which would cut through an Amazon biodiversity hotspot…
Damned evo brought New Dependency: How China is “remaking” Bolivia
Emily Achtenberg reports for NACLA: Financial Sovereignty or A New Dependency? How China is Remaking Bolivia China has become the principal funder and contractor for President Evo Morales’s state-led development project. What’s at stake for Bolivia? A major highway in Cochabamba, Bolivia, under construction by Chinese conglomerate Sinohydro, is paralyzed by five work stoppages in 14…
Old Rivalries Still Simmer Between Bolivia and Chile
Caizar Raldes reports for AFP through Stratfor Worldview: Old Rivalries Still Simmer Between Bolivia and Chile For centuries, relations between Bolivia and Chile have been marked by their dispute over territory. Bolivia’s defeat by Chile in the War of the Pacific (1879-83) left the country landlocked, and resentment between the two countries has grown since then….
Incomplete and at times biased State of the Left in Latin America: Bolivia After the Pink Tide
Linda Farthing and Thea N. Riofrancos write for Nacla: Excerpts pertaining Bolivia follow: [for the full article that includes Ecuador, please use the link at the bottom, thank you] The State of the Left in Latin America: Ecuador and Bolivia After the Pink Tide Part 1 in our two-part discussion on the state of the…
Pablo Solón targeted: The Bolivian Government Must Stop Persecuting Those Defending Nature and Rights and Address the Real Problems
Focus on the Global South reports via CADTM: Pablo Solón targeted: The Bolivian Government Must Stop Persecuting Those Defending Nature and Rights and Address the Real Problems Pablo Solón, the Director of Fundación Solón, former Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, and former Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), is being targeted…
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