19 July 2008 Green Left Weekly http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/759/39206

With the victory of an unlikely opposition candidate in the June 29 election for prefect (governor) of Chuquisaca, the number of opposition-controlled prefectures increased to seven out of nine. (Keep reading…)

Bolivia: Recall referendums open new struggle

17 May 2008 Green Left Weekly http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/751/38831 (Keep reading…)

May 5, 2008

The illegal referendum held on Sunday to declare autonomy in Santa Cruz, Bolivia‚s richest province, is backed by the Bush administration in an attempt to halt the leftward drift of South America. While the US embassy in La Paz blandly declares its support for “unity and democracy” in Bolivia, the government’s Interior Minister Alfredo Raba states what is widely known, that the United States “has an agenda more political than diplomatic in Bolivia, and this agenda is linked to opponents of the current government.” Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of the country, bluntly declares: “The imperialist project is to try to carve up Bolivia, and with that to carve up South America because it is the epicenter of great changes that are advancing on a world scale.” (Keep reading…)

25 April 2008 Green Left Weekly http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/748/38682

“Bolivia is on the verge of exploding”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned on April 21. (Keep reading…)

IPS: Inter Press Agency http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=42120 April 24, 2008

LA PAZ, Apr 24 (IPS) - Alto Parapetí, a rural area in the eastern
Bolivian province of Santa Cruz, is caught up in a dispute between
large landowners and the government, which is trying to free more than
2,700 Guaraní Indians from a state of servitude. (Keep reading…)

http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2008/03/bolivia-referendum-plan-raises-tensions.html

February 28 marked a further deepening of the political crisis and polarisation in Bolivia, when the national congress, in the middle of a blockade by a section of Bolivia’s main social movements, approved a law to hold two national referendums on May 4. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension
November 2007

In contrast to North America and Europe, in Latin America political regimes, social movements and ideologies are in constant flux.  Within a period of a few years, the political pendulum can swing from a seemingly radical leftist wave, to center-left and even rightwing ascendancy .  Likewise major social movements emerge, expand from local or regional power bases to significant actors on the national political scene, play a major role in dispatching right-wing regimes, support and even enter governmental coalitions and then decline, especially if they fail to achieve any of the minimum demands of their supporters.  <a href="http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2008/03/12/1670/#more-1670" class="more-link">(Keep reading...)</a>

Evo Morales, the first Indian president of Bolivia, is forcing a showdown with the oligarchy and the right wing political parties that have stymied efforts to draft a new constitution to transform the nation. He declares, “Dead or alive I will have a new constitution for the country by December 14,” the mandated date for the specially elected Constituent Assembly to present the constitution. (Keep reading…)

Voices in defense of Bolivia http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/voices-in-defense-of-bolivia.html (Keep reading…)

Summit of the social organisations of the indigenous, originario, campesino peoples and nations and the popular organisation of the cities of the Bolivia (Keep reading…)