Evo Morales and Bolivia - help?
HI all, I am looking to get as much info as I can on the new 2009 Bolivian Constitution. I would love to get a copy of it if I could. Also any relevant books, articles, journals would be great. I am extremely interested in the anti-colonial movement that is taking place in Bolivia and I am particularly interested in the Indigenous population and their political experiences in the past few years. Morales is the first Indigenous ("Indian") president that I have ever heard of in any country. I am First Nation and this story excites me tremendously and if anyone can help I would be grateful. I am doing my M.A. thesis in the Fall and I might look into a comparison between Morales, Bolivia, and the political movements in Sask. where the Aboriginal populations are reaching parity. Thanks.
Bolivia Rising
thanks for the site it has a copy but any more resources are welcomed.
Um, I don't want to be rude but ... Google is your friend. Check out VenezuelaAnalysis, the Cuban Granma website, and maybe NarcoSphere. They should have plenty of further links ...
http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/bolivias-referendums-august-10-2008-and-january-25-2009
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/whats-bolivias-new-constitution
Bolivian Government Violently Represses Indigenous Protest
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/boli-s27.shtml
"The government of President Evo Morales carried out a bloody crackdown Sunday against a march by indigenous protesters against the building of a new highway through their lands. The crisis the confrontation has created for the Morales government became evident with the resignation Monday of the Bolivian defence minister Cecelia Chacon. 'I do not agree with the intervention in the march and I cannot justify the measure when alternatives existed,' she wrote in a letter to Morales.
Meanwhile, hundreds of members of other indigenous groups have launched protests...Waldo Albarracin, the country's former public defender, told the AFP news agency that Sunday's police violence represented 'a reprehensible act of political repression similar to those unleashed by the de facto governments that ruled Bolivia under military dictators in the 1960s."
A different point of view:
NGOs wrong on Morales and Amazon, by Federico Fuentes
and a further update by Fuentes
Two further updates by Fuentes:
Solidarity activists need to support process
Rumble over jungle far from over
Bolivia President Says NGOs Spy On His Country for US
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/225886.html
"Bolivian President Evo Morales has said a number of non-governmental organizations (NGSs) are spying on his country for the US. 'Some of the NGOs that work with local philanthropic groups 'are the fifth column of espionage in Bolivia..."
The story at NDPP's link above says this: [Morales] has especially blamed three NGOs -- the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research (CEJIS), the Bolivian Forum on Environment and Development (FOBOBMADE) and the League of Defense of the Environment (LIDEMA) -- for plotting to undermine the Bolivian state.
Anyone here know anything about this?