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It seemed so obvious for a few years, back when the Berlin Wall had just fallen, that democratic capitalism would be the only way left for a developing country to go.
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After the turmoil and instability of 2007, Bolivia looks to be turning a corner on the troubled road to reform. Indeed, Bolivian MP René Martinez seems positively...
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Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday said the United States has tried to thwart his political ambitions and, more recently, failed to condemn a pro-autonomy...
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The government of Evo Morales has proposed a change in the pension system in Bolivia. This reform is aimed at ensure a pension for all the citizens of the Andean...
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In a rare instance of political accord, President Evo Morales and his critics have agreed to support a recall election for Morales and all eight sitting state...
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On May 4, an illegal referendum took place in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department (state) to decide whether the region would become autonomous from the rest of the...
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Evo Morales, Bolivia’s president, has agreed to hold a vote of confidence on his rule amid a power struggle between his government and wealthy provinces.
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The people of Bolivia are to hold a vote of confidence in the rule of their leftist President, Evo Morales, as he struggles to enact radical reform.
Mr Morales, who...
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BOLIVIAN President Evo Morales claims to be ruling his country on behalf of an indigenous majority whose rights have been denied for centuries by an evil...
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This was supposed to be the moment Bolivia’s democratic revolution became carved in stone: a new constitution transferring power from a white elite to the...
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The Bolivian government headed by President Evo Morales faces a tough challenge as an autonomy referendum proposed by the Santa Cruz provincial government, possibly the...
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Bolivian President Evo Morales came to New York this week to deliver the keynote address at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Morales became Bolivia’s...
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When Fernando Lugo, a former priest and a political novice, won Paraguay’s presidential election on 20 April, he became the first man in 60 years to reach the...
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Class struggle in Bolivia
While the world is moving towards an open trade paradigm driven by the grand concept of liberalization, privatization and globalization, some...
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Eyes were blackened, noses bruised, yelling, angry staring, and hullabaloo in Bolivian congress, matched the Indian one. It took place when politicians traded blows...
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In the leftist government of Evo Morales, the president has expressed his strong opinion about the coca cultivation.
Having remained a coca farmer himself the...
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Latin America is fast undergoing a leftist resurgence to the obvious discomfort of the U.S. Before the election of President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in 1999, Cuba was...
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Fashionistas all over the world must be going crazy with Bolivia’s President-elect’s recent fashion statement. That was a great stunt pulled by Evo Morales...
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