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Hillary Clinton Recognizes Multi-Polar World, Failures of U.S. Latin America Policy

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Ecuador, Argentina, US Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Evo Morales, Bolivia, World News

For the first time we have an acknowledgment of our failure in Venezuela.

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Dengue Fever Spreading, Worsening In Latin America

Inter Press Service | Marcela Valente | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Dengue Fever, Latin America, Pan-American Health Organization, Brazil, Health, Foreign Affairs, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Dengue, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, Buenos Aires, Rio De Janeiro-Brazil, World News

BUENOS AIRES, Apr 21 (Tierramérica) - The population's susceptibility to suffering more severe forms of dengue is worrying health experts, as the e...

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President Obama and the Americas: Beyond the Trinidad Summit

Abraham Lowenthal | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Summit of the Americas, Mexico, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, Cuba, Foreign Policy, Colombia, Grenada, Brazil, Panama, Haiti, Argentina, Bolivia, World News

Navigating the next stages in the U.S.-Cuba relationship will be complex, for both sides have to overcome years of distrust, mutual hostility and propaganda.

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Morales Assassination Plot Foiled, 3 Killed: Police

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Evo Morales Assassination Plot, Evo Morales Plot, Evo Morales Assassination, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian police foiled an alleged plot to assassinate President Evo Morales, killing three men in a 30-minute gunbattle with a...

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Morales Ends Hunger Strike

News24 | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Evo Morales, Bolivia, Latin America, Evo Morales Hunger Strike, Morales, World News

President Evo Morales has ended a five-day hunger strike after Bolivia's congress approved a law that sets a December date for general elections....

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Bolivian President Evo Morales Using Hunger Strike To Move Congress

Thaindian News | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Un Drug Conference, Latin America, Un Drug Summit, Evo Morales Hunger Strike, Foreign Affairs, Evo Morales, Advocacy, Bolivia, World News

Bolivia's President Evo Morales is on a hunger strike to force the National Congress to pass a law. The law would provide for new elections in Decemb...

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High in the Bolivian Andes women dish out llama pizza

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Bolivia, Home News

Minuteman Pizza serves many traditional pizzas, but also some with a twist, like the spicy llama pizza. Worldfocus producer Bryan Myers is c...

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More Natural Resource Conflicts To Come (AUDIO)

WorldFocus | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Bolivia, Drc, Lithium, Coltan, Resource Conflict, Evo Morales, Green Politics, Electronics, Congo, Green News

Competition for natural resoures often lies at the heart of human conflict, from oil and water in the Middle East to contested coltan in the Democ...

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Evo Morales: US Conspiracy To Force Bolivia Onto Daylight Savings Time (April Fools!)

democracyctr.org | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Us Embassy Bolivia, Latin America, Morales, Daylight Savings Bolivia, Evo Morales Dalight Savings Time, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Foreign Affairs, Morales and Daylight Savings Time, Evo Morales, Daylights Savings, Evo Morales Daylight Savings, Evo Morales Huffington Post, World News

An April Fools joke by the Democracy Center: President Evo Morales, equipped with a wall clock as a prop, charged Tuesday that the U.S. Embassy in L...

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Bolivia: Girl In Coma Almost Buried Alive

CNN | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: South America, Abuse, Child Abuse, Toddler in Coma, Buried Alive, Latin America, Bolivia, La Paz, World News

A 3-year-old Bolivian girl whose parents thought was dead and were preparing to bury remained in a coma but was improving Friday, while her mother and...

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Fathers: Bring Your Daughters to School

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: India, Education, Fada, Father and Daughter Alliance, Bolivia, Women Education, Domestic Abuse, World News

Many organizations work with women and children and hold them in shelters as victims of abuse, but not many are working directly with those men who may be still causing suffering to others.

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Bolivian President Chews Coca During Speech At UN

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Evo Morales Recall, Drug Enforcement Administration, United Nations, Kris Krane, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Coca, Cocaine, Politics News

Evo Morales isn't afraid to practice what he preaches. The Bolivian president, an outspoken proponent of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, brought ...

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Bolivia expels US diplomat, alleging conspiracy

AP | PAOLA FLORES | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Bolivia Diplomat, Bolivia Us Ambassador, Latin America, Evo Morales, Bolivia Us Diplomat, Bolivia Kicks Out Us Diplomat, Francisco Martinez, Bolivia, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales on Monday ordered a U.S. diplomat to leave Bolivia for allegedly conspiring with opposition groups, furt...

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Fathers: Bring Your Daughters to School

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

Read More: Bolivia, New Delhi, Women's Rights, Women, Kiran Walia, Women's Health, Unesco, Fathers and Daughters, Fatherhood, International Women's Day, Fathers, Deepalaya, Fada, World News

We absolutely need to work together, women and men, fathers and mothers, in the education and protection of all children -- especially girls.

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The United States and Bolivia: A New Beginning?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Venezuela, Latin America Policy, Us-Latin-America-Policy, Latin America, Evo Morales, Bolivia, US Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, World News

With Obama's policy towards Venezuela and Cuba pretty much decided, Bolivia is left as a government in the region where the hostility of the Bush administration could be quickly reversed.

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Latin America's Populist Revolutions Driven -- And Written -- By Spanish Scholars

Washingtonpost.com | Joshua Partlow | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

Read More: Referendum Venezuela, Venezuela, Ecuador, Latin America, Bolivia, Hugo Chavez Venezuela Referendum, Venzuela Referendum, European Legal Scholars Latin America, Roberto Viciano Pastor, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Once a product of armed rebellion, the revolution in Latin America today is taking place on paper in the form of new constitutions,...

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In Bolivia, Lithium Is A Tightly Controlled Commodity

Nytimes.com | SIMON ROMERO | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Bolivia Indian Rights, Bolivia Lithium, Latin America, Lithium, Morales, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Bolivia Resources, World News

UYUNI, Bolivia -- In the rush to build the next generation of hybrid or electric cars, a sobering fact confronts both automakers and governments seeki...

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Bolivia's Evo Morales Wins Referendum Designed To Enhance His Powers

Telegraph | Gareth Rubin in La Paz | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Bolivia Constitution, Latin America, Morales Referendum, Bolivia Referendum, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Bolivia Vote, World News

Bolivia is facing a political crisis after President Evo Morales won a decisive victory in a referendum designed to enhance his own powers and turn th...

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The Contradictions Facing a Black President of the American Empire

Johann Hari | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: Bush Administration, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Obama Administration, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Allende, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News

If you want to know if Obama is really altering the tectonic forces that drive American power, keep an eye on the rooftop of the world.

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One Problem With Talking About "Energy Independence"

Clusterstock | Jay Yarow | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Bolivia, Electric Cars, Energy Independence, Evo Morales, Lithium Batteries, Green News

More than half the world's supply of lithium--73 million tons--is in Bolivia, a nation run by populist Evo Morales. In anticipation of a growing need ...

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President Obama: Set Cuba Free

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

Read More: Communism, Ernest Hemingway, Dwight Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Cuban Embargo, Inauguration, Ussr, Guantanamo, Moscow, Marxism, Bolivia, Che Guevara, Havana, Barack Obama, Paris, Cuba, 100 Days, World News

Releasing Cuba from 50 years of prison could be one of President Barack Obama's most sensible, easiest, and most applauded early acts.

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Oliver Stone Meets Bolivia's President Morales For Talk, Coca

AP | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Oliver Stone, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Entertainment News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone kicked a soccer ball and chewed coca leaves with Bolivia's leftist president Tuesday during an int...

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Che The Movie, Exquisitely Detailed: It's Not Just One Film, It's Two, Though a Little Bit Overdone

Michael Russnow | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bolivia, Abc, Steven Soderbergh, Fulgencio Batista, Judgment at Nuremberg, Frost/Nixon, Benicio Del Toro, Russnow, Ram Productions International, The Reader, Che, Che Guevara, Movies, Peter Andrews, Harvey Milk, Passion of the Christ, Peter Buchman, Defiance, Julia Ormond, Alberto Iglesias, Benjamin Van Der Veen, Fidel Castro, Mel Gibson, Michael Russnow, Cuba, Milk, Lisa Howard, Spartacus, Entertainment News

Benicio Del Toro is magnetic and haunting as Che, but he has the difficult task of communicating to us through subtitles, as most of the film is told in Spanish.

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Coping with Crisis, Latin America Bucks the System

Laura Carlsen | Posted 01.15.2009 | World

Read More: Bolivia, Trade Agreement of the Peoples, Venezuela, Latin America, Rafael Correa, Sucre, Financial Crisis, Chavez, Honduras, Alba, World News

The prospect of a unified Latin America that could finally stand up, not only to the U.S. but to the global financial system, appeals to global justice activists.

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South America: Recession Can Be Avoided

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business

Read More: South, Treasury Department, Balance of Payments, Venezuela, Stabilization Fund, America, Opec, World Bank, Economy, Reserves, Brazil, Ecuador, Imf, Bolivia, Business News

There is good reason to believe that South America, in particular, can weather this storm with minimal damage if it adopts the right macro-economic policies.

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