News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
Posted in Pro–Santa Cruz Commitee, new constitution, opposition on Jan 30th, 2009
Santa Cruz prefect Rubén Costas is considering a possible meeting with Bolivian president Evo Morales, four days after a new consitution was approved by over 60 percent of Bolivian voters. (In Santa Cruz department, the consitution was rejected by nearly 65 percent of voters.) In order for the meeting to take place, Costas is demanding [...]
Posted in chavez on Jan 28th, 2009
… where Bina comes up with some good stuff. (My apologies, Neil, and Canada in general.)
Anyhow, in mountainous Bolivia, we can’t get a decent Internet connection to play video or audio. So I’m taking this little encounter on faith. Hugo and Evo having talk, over at News of the Restless.
Posted in garcía linera on Jan 28th, 2009
I’ve been reading up on vice president Álvaro García Linera today, a man I find immensely interesting. Part of it is my curiousness as to whether he’ll pick up the MAS mantle in 2015, when Morales cannot run for president again. From Bolivia Rising comes a speech he made in late 2007, entitled “Catastrophic Equilibrium [...]
Posted in new constitution on Jan 28th, 2009
Much has been made about the new Bolivian constitution’s supposed anti-Christian, pro-homosexuality, and pro-abortion provisions. In the interest of understanding the issues better, I offer my translations of the constitution applicable to these issues. I make no guarantee of any accuracy in my translation, and any critique is more than welcome (in the comments section, [...]
Posted in round-up on Jan 28th, 2009
The front page of El Deber, Santa Cruz’s main daily, bemoans the fact that “the conciliatory tone of Sunday night’s triumphal presidential message changed yesterday. Evo Morales proclaimed his new victory and again attacked the opposition, accusing them of ’selling the country.’” But at least he isn’t collecting money to assassinate the heads of said [...]
Posted in UJC, new constitution on Jan 26th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2009
La Razón reports that with just 60 percent of the votes in, nearly 51 percent voted “yes” to the new constitution. The land reform referendum looks like new (not grandfathered) plots of land will be held a 5,000 hectares.
El Deber (of all places) has a cool chart. It’s in Flash, so it can’t be reposted [...]
Posted in opposition on Jan 26th, 2009
Santa Cruz, Bolivia, was in lock-down mode today as voters flocked to the polls to cast a “Yes” or “No” vote on Evo Morales’s new constitution. Santa Cruz is the capital city of the opposition to Morales, and there is no doubt that the city and the eponymous department will fall firmly into the “No” [...]
Posted in opposition on Jan 25th, 2009
Today, the day before the referendum on the new Bolivian constitution, all is quiet in Santa Cruz, the seat of the opposition to President Evo Morales. It was a hot and lazy, with very few people in the streets. Both the camps have concluded their campaigns, and all that’s left till tomorrow are spray-painted
Linera is [...]
Posted in racism on Jan 25th, 2009
From BBC News:
When agreement was reached on the concessions back in October, Mr Morales wept in front of a huge crowd of supporters in La Paz’s Central Plaza, where Indians were not allowed to set foot until the 1950s. [Emphasis added.]
If the new Bolivian constitution is passed tomorrow, it includes a provision reserving seats in [...]
Beer bolivia bolivia information forum bolivian constitution Cats Chivé Clear-Cutting Cobija freedom of religion hegemony homosexuality Insects Mud pando point of bifurcation porvenir Puerto Heath Puerto Maldonado Puerto Pardo Río Madre de Dios united nations álvaro garcía linera