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Plurinational State of Bolivia

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Luis Arce allegedly planned the assassination of his rival Evo Morales

1 November 2024

• In December 2023, former Bolivian President Evo Morales denounced a "dark plan" aimed at eliminating him and his party’s leaders, Andronico Rodriguez, Leonardo Loza and Gualberto Arispe.
• A 2015 investigation was reopened against Evo Morales for "rape, trafficking and human trafficking", (…)

The overthrow of Evo Morales and the first lithium war

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 16 March 2021

The world was used to oil wars since the end of the 19th century. Now the wars over lithium, a mineral that is essential for mobile phones, but above all for electric cars, are beginning. Foreign Office documents obtained by a British historian and journalist show that the UK engineered the (…)

Evo Morales’ triumphant return to Bolivia

22 November 2020

Former Bolivian president Evo Morales has returned from exile. He had fled his country in October 2019 during the coup d’état hatched by a homegrown Ustashi group linked to the CIA and the OAS [1], to thwart his re-election. The international media had then falsely reported that he was forced to (…)

Bolivia, laboratory of a new destabilization strategy

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 26 November 2019

The international press reports the events in Bolivia with caution. It describes the overthrow of President Evo Morales, evokes yet another coup d’état, but fails to identify what is really happening. It does not see the emergence of a new political force, hitherto unknown in Latin America. For (…)

25 truths about the Evo Morales/Edward Snowden case

by Salim Lamrani

Paris (France) | 5 July 2013

Unprecedented in the history of international relations, the governments of four European countries - France, Spain, Italy and Portugal - have closed off their airspace this week to the Bolivian president’s airplane. Is this a case of strict compliance with international laws or further proof of (…)

Using the Cold War

The Truman Administration’s Response to the Bolivian National Revolution

by Benjamin Dangl

19 May 2013

In light of Evo Morales’ May Day expulsion of USAID from Bolivia for seeking to undermine his government, here is a look back to the Harry Truman administration’s work to undermine Bolivia’s transformative National Revolution in 1952. "This history’s legacy lives on; Washington’s power is woven (…)

Bolivia: Morales keeps DEA out

19 November 2011

Bolivia and the US agreed to restore diplomatic relations on Nov. 7, three years after President Evo Morales expelled the US ambassador and then, weeks later, the DEA force in the Andean country. This was the first of several times since then that Morales has accused the US of plotting against (…)

Bolivia: Che Guevara Increasingly Present

8 October 2011

A sculpture of Ernesto “Che” Guevara stands in La Higuera, Bolivia, where he was hunted down and killed.
After 54 years of his murder in this humble town, iconic revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara is today ever more present in the work of internationalist physicians, teachers and diplomats. (…)

Evo Morales’ Speech to the G77 + China at the UN: Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth

by Evo Morales

7 May 2010

United Nations New York 7 May 2010
I have come here to share the conclusions of the First World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, held last April 20th to 22nd in Cochabamba, Bolivia. I convened this Conference because in Copenhagen the voice of the peoples (…)

Former East-European military elements sent to Bolivia by the CIA to assassinate Evo Morales

14 February 2010

On 16 April 2009, the special service unit of the Bolivian police stormed into the hotel "Las Americas" in Santa Cruz, capturing a group of paramilitary operatives. Three mercenaries were killed during the attack: Croatian commando leader Eduardo Rózsa Flores (in the photo), Irish national (…)

Cuban VP Ramiro Valdes Addressed Bolivians in La Paz

Havana (Cuba) | 25 January 2010

Cuban Vice President of the Council of States and Ministers, Ramiro Valdes passed on greetings from the Cuban people to the Bolivians in a gathering to celebrate the beginning of the second term of Evo Morales’ presidency.

Russia, Bolivia to launch gas joint venture

by F. William Engdahl

17 October 2009

Relations between the US and Bolivia have been tense ever since Evo Morales became president in December 2005, pledging to nationalize his country’s vast gas reserves. They hit a critical point in September 2008 when Morales ordered the expulsion of the U.S. ambassador, accusing him of fomenting (…)

Latin America’s Twenty-First Century Socialism in Historical Perspective

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 11 October 2009

The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism (21cs). (…)

Nationalization of natural gas in Bolivia:

Populism or another rout to democracy?

by Walter Mignolo

Caracas (Venezuela) | 25 May 2006

Evo Morales recently read the “Supreme Decree” in which the nationalization of natural gas was announced. The rumor was already spread out in Bolivia, the day before, May 1st. The decree starts by considering that “in historical struggles, the people have conquered and paid with their blood, the (…)

Bolivian left wing in power: the “Miami Herald” grinds its teeth

2 February 2006

The newspaper Miami Herald, from Florida, a US state where an important Cuban minority is based and where many of its members got there running away from nationalizations, has taken note without much interest of the election of the “coca-leaf farmer” leader Evo Morales in Bolivia. The title of (…)

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