El Gaviero

There’s been a coup in Honduras, with the military spiriting away Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, in pajamas, in the early morning hours on Sunday. At issue is a referendum scheduled for yesterday that would begin a long process to amend the Honduran constitution so that Zelaya could be re-elected. Although the referendum was non-binding, several [...]

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El Gaviero has just flown back to New York City, and boy is he tired. Unfortunately for him, the Bolivian news cycle never stops, and he now finds himself playing catch-up! Luckily for you all, other bloggers never rest. So here’s a round-up on the news from Bolivia:

Otto’s got a great translation of a damning [...]

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Blog From Bolivia has an analysis posted by Dan Beeton, from the Center for Economic and Policiy Research, of U.S. intervention and funding of violent opposition groups in Bolivia. This comes about after Beeton, the author of “The Fun House Mirror”–a critique of U.S. news reporting on Bolivia and the Morales administration–was confronted by Jim [...]

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The identities of the alleged would-be assassins of Evo Morales come trickling in. (Bina, as usual, is on top of it.) One of them who was killed, one Eduardo Rózsa Flores, is now confirmed to be a Croatian (like Santa Cruz Civic Committee leader Branko Marinkovic). He also had a blog, mainly written in either [...]

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Intrepid journalist Jean Friedman-Rudovsky has a Time article up (already!–nice to see a mainstream U.S. publication so quick on the draw; but that can happen when the correspondent actually spends some time in the country) that nicely sums up what is know so far. Basically, in the early hours of Thursday morning, Bolivian police raided [...]

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In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nick Buxton rightly takes Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg to task for his adoration of disgraced ex–Bolivian president Gonzalo “Goni” Sánchez de Lozada, whom he and colleague James Carville helped elect in 2002 (as documented in 2007’s Cocalero 2005’s Our Brand Is Crisis–thanks anon). Goni’s neoliberal policies and privatization schemes [...]

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A while ago I posted that the Santa Cruz Youth Union (UJC) and the Pro-Santa Cruz Cruz Committee (PSCC)had started up a webzine aimed at camba youth to promote their autonomy movement. Shortly after I received that missive from those organizations, their webzine, Jóvenes Ahora, went up, and then, mysteriously, went down. Now it appears [...]

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Image stolen from La Razón.
From BBC:
“Any change brings violence with it, whether the change will benefit them or us, we’ll have to see, but there will be violence,” said Victor Hugo Rojas, a leader in the Union of Santa Cruz Youth, a radical civic group said to be behind much of last year’s violence there.
“It [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I recieved an email from “Jóvenes Ahora,” an obvious front for the Pro–Santa Cruz Committee (PSCC)/Cruceño Youth Union (UJC). Alas, I should have posted it then, because they were promoting a webmag, Jóvenes Ahora, whose account is inexplicitly suspended as this moment. (Side note: The header for the mag showed [...]

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