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…)

Monthly Review June 2007

Regrettably, there are all too many candidates that qualify as imminent and very serious crises. Several should be high on everyone’s agenda of concern, because they pose literal threats to human survival: the increasing likelihood of a terminal nuclear war, and environmental disaster, which may not be too far removed. However, I would like to focus on narrower issues, those that are of greatest concern in the West right now. I will be speaking primarily of the United States, which I know best, and it is the most important case because of its enormous power. But as far as I can ascertain, Europe is not very different. (Keep reading…)

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/715/37121

Not for the first time in recent years, politics in Bolivia has spilled out of the official institutions and onto the streets. With the constituent assembly entering into its decisive phase — less than two months from its official deadline to draft a new constitution to present to the people in a referendum — Raul Prada, a delegate from the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS, the party of Bolivia’s indigenous president, Evo Morales), told La Razon on June 18: “it has become sufficiently clear that the issues this assembly is dealing with will not be resolved only inside the assembly, but rather outside”. (Keep reading…)

Rabble.ca May 25, 2007

Building Power through participatory democracy was the major theme of an extraordinary conference held recently at Ryerson University. Eight speakers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela gave conference delegates an inside view of the transformative processes taking place in their countries. (Keep reading…)

Miami Herald February 19, 2007

In an exclusive interview, Bolivian President Evo Morales spoke of his focus on the poor, his admiration for Fidel Castro and also signaled respect for private investment. (Keep reading…)