By Tomas Castanheira / World Socialist Web Site Since Monday, a movement of strikes and blockades of main roads by workers and peasants has been spreading in Bolivia. Protesters are opposing a decree that further postpones general elections, threatening to maintain the […]
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Bolivia and the Law of Mother Earth
Update Alas, the wild and wet dream of an ecotopia in Bolivia is but lies on paper and another example of the emptiness of beautiful intentions applied to government rhetoric. The article below was written in the salad days of Evo’s hope […]
Continue readingBolivians march against development plan
Reposted from Al Jazeera [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwiYvwzPc-E&] Bolivian indigenous activists have started a long protest march from the Amazon plains to the country’s capital in against a government plan to build a 306km highway through a national park in indigenous territory. Bolivian President Evo […]
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