Evo Morales

Bolivia, Expropriation and Chutzpah

Daniel Wagner | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Foreign Relations, South America, Bolivia, Foreign Affairs, Latin America, Evo Morales, World News
Daniel Wagner

President Morales has the chutzpah, and three Wall Street institutions have the temerity, to issue bonds for a government that has personified 21st century Latin American socialism and continues a time honored tradition of expropriating foreign-owned assets.

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Coca-Leaf Chewing To Be Legalized?

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Bolivia Coca, Coca-Leave Chewing, Bolivia Eva Morales, Evo Morales Coca, Bolivia Coca Leaves, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Coca, World News

VIENNA -- Bolivian President Evo Morales urged a 53-nation U.N. narcotics control meeting Monday to accept his push for legalization of coca-leaf chew...

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Bolivia's Flying Men

Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Evo Morales Bolivia, Video, Bolivia Coca, Yungus Valley, Bolivia Flying Men, Evo Morales Coca, Coca Leaves, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Coca, Bolivia Yungus Valley, World News

"People say we spun spider webs together across the valley. But that's not true. We're the flying men of the Yungas. On our ropes we're like birds. We...

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Bolivian President Hopes To Build Railway To Peru

AP | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Bolivia Exports, Bolivia Peru, Peru, Evo Morales Railway, Bolivia Economy, Bolivia Railroad, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Bolivia Peru Railway, World News

LIMA, Peru -- Bolivia's president said Monday that he hopes to build a new railway linking his country to Peru that would facilitate exports to Asia. ...

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Evo Quietly Consolidates Power

Joel D. Hirst | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Communism, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Bolivia Politics, Arrest, World News
Joel D. Hirst

As the Bolivians are finding out, the institutions of 21st century authoritarianism offer them no better protection for their fundamental, inalienable, irreversible and un-renounceable human rights than did those of the last century.

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Bolivia Cancels Jungle Highway Plans

AP | By CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Video, Morales, Bolivia Jungle, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Bolivia Jungle Highway, Evo Morales Libya, Evo Morales Amazon Highway, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- President Evo Morales said Friday that he was scrapping plans to build a highway through a nature reserve in Bolivia's jungle lowla...

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Voters Rebuke Evo Morales By Casting Invalid Ballots

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Evo Morales Invalid Ballot, Evo Morales Voting, Bolivia Elections, Evo Morales Elections, Evo Morales, Bolivia, President Evo Morales, Evo Morales Election Exit Polls, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Most Bolivians who voted in Sunday's election to choose the country's top judges cast invalid ballots in what would be a sting...

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Bolivians March In Support Of Evo Morales

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Video, Bolivia Demonstration, Morales March, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Evo Morales March, Evo Morales Demonstration, President Evo Morales, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Tens of thousands of Bolivians have converged on the center of the capital to show support for leftist President Evo Morales in his...

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Smiling Evo Morales Beams From The Back Of Students' Computers

AP | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Bolivia Computers, Bolivia Laptops, Bolivia Education, Bolivia, Evo Morales, La Paz, Evo Morales Computers, Evo Morales Laptops, Roberto Aguilar, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia's government is giving school teachers free laptops with a prominent detail that is generating criticism for President...

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Evo's Indigenous Problem

Joel D. Hirst | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Evo Morales, Bolivia, Tipnis, Oas, El Alto, David Choquehuanca, Bolivia Riots, Bolivian Government, Luis Ignacio Da Silva, Indigenous Bolivians, Bolivian Presidents, World News
Joel D. Hirst

One thing is clear: President Morales's peculiar version of mob authoritarianism appears to have turned against him.

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Bolivian President's Popularity Plunges Dramatically

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ and FRANK BAJAK | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Bolivia Evo Morales, Evo Morales Bolivia President, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Bolivia Amazon Highway, Bolivia Highway, Evo Morales Popularity, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Tens of thousands of Bolivians took to the streets in major cities Wednesday to heap reproach on President Evo Morales over a polic...

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Earth Preaching

Reverend Billy | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Nationalism, Social Institutions, Congress, President Obama, Flood, Economy, Earth, Reverend Billy, Media, Earthalujah, Church of Stop Shopping, Culture, Government, Church of Earthalujah, Nation-State, Politics, Religion, Climate Change, Environment, Evo Morales, Tornado, Tea Party, Belief, Global Warming, Green News
Reverend Billy

Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture -- all wrapped into one big institution -- that is simple common sense!  When we...

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WikiLeaks: Fissures Over South American Left Integration

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Wikileaks, Michelle Bachelet, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez, Nestor Kirchner, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Fernando Lugo, Unasur, World News
Nikolas Kozloff

Behind all of the lofty rhetoric and idealism, serious fissures remain within South America's leftist movement, both within individual countries and within the larger regional milieu.

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Bolivian President Reportedly Fears U.S. Cocaine Plot During Visit

Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Evo Morales Bolivia, Bolivia US, Evo Morales, Bolivia-US-Ambassador, Morales US, World News

When Bolivian President Evo Morales traveled to the United States Wednesday to attend a U.N. General Assembly meeting on the first anniversary of the ...

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Big Wedding: 350 Indian Couples Tie The Knot In Mass Ceremony In Bolivia

AP | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Mass Wedding, Indian Wedding, Marriage, La Paz, Weird Bolivia, Evo Morales, Wedding, Big Wedding, Bolivia Wedding, Weird News News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — About 350 couples in Bolivia have been married according to Indian customs and traditions in a colorful Andean mass wedding wi...

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Which Country Wants To Give Nature And Humans Equal Protection?

Carly Schwartz | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Bolivia Climate Change, Bolivia Environment, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Video, Bolivia Nature Humans Law, Pachamama, Bolivia Law of Mother Earth, Green News

Does Mother Nature deserve the same protection as your own mother? Lawmakers in Bolivia think so. The South American country's leaders are on the b...

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Effort Begins To Have Obama Stripped Of Nobel Peace Prize

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Nobel Prize, Rush Limbaugh, Moammar Gaddafi, Barack Obama Nobel Prize, Evo Morales, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Barack Obama, World News

The Bolivian president and a Russian political leader have launched a joint effort to have President Barack Obama stripped of the Nobel Peace Prize. ...

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Dear President Chavez, Prime Minister Erdogan, President Morales, and President Ortega

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Human Rights, Turkey, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Erdogan, Evo Morales, Israel, Daniel Ortega, World News
David Harris

Each of you has been a recipient of the Muammar Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights. When you had the chance to show that you learned your lesson by returning the award, you did not.

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Bolivian President Rattled By Protests

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Bolivia President Evo Morales, Sugar Prices, La Paz, Bolivia Protests, Evo Morales, Bolivia Food Subsidies, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian President Evo Morales has abruptly abandoned the southern highlands city of Oruro after protesters angered by rising ...

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Dancing With Dynamite in Latin America

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Benjamin Dangl, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Dilma Rousseff, Rafael Correa, Nikolas Kozloff, South America Politics, South America, South America Government, Latin America Politics, South America Policy, Latin America Government, Latin America, Latin America Policy, World News
Nikolas Kozloff

The past ten years in Latin America have seen a historic shift to the left in government power and the streets. The US needs to learn from these examples if we are to break out of our stagnant political culture.

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Wikileaks: The Dalai Lama's Misplaced Climate Change Strategy

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Evo Morales, Dalai Lama, Wikileaks, Tibet, Green News
Nikolas Kozloff

Message to Dalai Lama: maybe it is time to stop the unproductive, backroom parlor games with the U.S. and get out in front on the climate change issue.

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Interview with Bolivian Lead Climate Negotiator Pablo Solón

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Redd, cop16, Copenhagen Accord, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Green, Evo Morales, Unfccc, Indigenous People, Global Warming, Green News
Tina Gerhardt

Cancun, Mexico - On the antepenultimate (scheduled) day of the COP 16, I sat down with Bolivia's climate negotiator Pablo Solón to discuss how the CO...

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Backroom Deal? Again? Bolivia Takes a Stance

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Evo Morales, Cop 15, Copenhagen Accord, Unfccc, Cop 16, Kyoto Protocol, Green News
Tina Gerhardt

It's crunch time. There are two days left for government leaders and their representatives to come to an agreement. Can they make progress? Can they find solutions?

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WikiLeaks: The U.S. Must "Neutralize, Co-opt or Marginalize" Radical Latin American Bloc in Climate Negotiations

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evo Morales, Wikileaks, Cancun Climate Summit, Cancun, Copenhagen 2009, WikiLeaks Cables, John Creamer, Alba, Summit, Environment, Bolivia, Climate Change, Green News
Nikolas Kozloff

The WikiLeaks scandal could well turn into the Climate Gate scandal. There's got to be a concerted campaign on Brazil so that we can see some movement at Cancún.

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Wikileaks: So Much for Left Wing "Solidarity" in South America

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Bachelet, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Nestor Kirchner, Wikileaks, World News
Nikolas Kozloff

In Oliver Stone's recent documentary South of the Border, leftist regimes in Latin America are depicted rather idealistically. In country after coun...

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