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Evo Morales

Will Correa Assume Chavez's Role Leading Latin American Socialism?

Daniel Wagner | Posted 03.05.2013 | World
Daniel Wagner

With Hugo Chavez having now passed, the question of who will inherit his legacy as the vanguard of 21st century socialism in Latin America is foremost in the minds of many.

Bolivia's Morales Nationalizes Spanish Owned Airport Company

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 04.20.2013 | World

LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales nationalized on Monday the Spanish-owned venture that runs Bolivia's country's three main airports in hi...

Bolivia's President Celebrates Mayan 'Apocalypse' With Tradition, Ushers In Era Of Love

Posted 12.21.2012 | World

The Mayan apocalypse, predicted to take place on Dec. 21, has arrived without so much as a sputter. But while many around the world began to shutter t...

Breached Piñatas

Sean Penn | Posted 02.19.2013 | World
Sean Penn

I have had a front row seat to many of our State Department's diplomatic efforts and can offer unequivocally as one American voice, enormous pride and gratitude for this administration's extraordinary Department of State. Most recently, I draw your attention to the case of Jacob Ostreicher.

Wars of Others

Lilia Luciano | Posted 02.04.2013 | World
Lilia Luciano

As we continue to resist new solutions, the war on drugs has generated a number of "unintended consequences" -- significantly affecting producer countries -- which undermine security, development, governance, health and human rights.

Congratulating Obama? Not These Guys

Posted 11.11.2012 | World

While President Barack Obama won the votes of millions of Americans, he has failed to warm the hearts of some key world figures. Unsurprisingly, Iran'...

Evo Morales' Gets $100,000... In Ponchos

AP | Posted 11.09.2012 | World

Bolivian President Evo Morales says his personal wealth has jumped by $100,000 since taking office, thanks to all the gift ponchos he's received. T...

PHOTOS: World Leaders Know Halloween Costumes Better Than Anyone Else

Posted 10.31.2012 | World

Halloween is just around the corner and if you're short on time and ideas for your costume, look no further! Sometimes a quick glance at examples by o...

U.S. Relations Are Like 'A Turd'

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 12.12.2012 | World

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Evo Morales has never been interested in currying favor with Washington. Quite the contrary....

Bolivia, Expropriation and Chutzpah

Daniel Wagner | Posted 05.19.2012 | World
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.

Coca-Leaf Chewing To Be Legalized?

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.12.2012 | World

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...

Bolivia's Flying Men

Posted 02.23.2012 | World

"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...

Bolivian President Hopes To Build Railway To Peru

AP | Posted 12.26.2011 | World

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. ...

Evo Quietly Consolidates Power

Joel D. Hirst | Posted 02.20.2012 | World
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.

Bolivia Cancels Jungle Highway Plans

AP | By CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 12.21.2011 | World

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...

Voters Rebuke Evo Morales By Casting Invalid Ballots

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 12.16.2011 | World

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...

Bolivians March In Support Of Evo Morales

AP | Posted 12.12.2011 | World

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...

Smiling Evo Morales Beams From The Back Of Students' Computers

AP | Posted 12.10.2011 | World

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

Evo's Indigenous Problem

Joel D. Hirst | Posted 12.05.2011 | World
Joel D. Hirst

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

Bolivian President's Popularity Plunges Dramatically

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ and FRANK BAJAK | Posted 11.28.2011 | World

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...

Earth Preaching

Reverend Billy | Posted 10.19.2011 | Green
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...

WikiLeaks: Fissures Over South American Left Integration

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.15.2011 | World
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.

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

Posted 09.26.2011 | World

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 ...

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

AP | Posted 11.15.2011 | Weird 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...

Which Country Wants To Give Nature And Humans Equal Protection?

Carly Schwartz | Posted 06.13.2011 | Green

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...