To truly be effective, climate change activists will have to gain support from more important geopolitical players in the region such as Brazil. If they fail to do so, critics may dismiss the tribunal as a partisan hatchet job on the United States, just like in Bertrand Russell's day.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
In the land of esperanza, Obama must recognize that talk of "hope" that is accompanied by continued military funding for governments like those of Honduras or Colombia rings hollow.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Bolivian drug enforcement agents have raided the biggest cocaine lab ever found in the country, BBC reports. The lab was able to produce up to 220 pou...
AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to change America's historically heavy-handed rel...
AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales called for an about-face in relations with Washington on Thursday, saying past diplomatic spats can be o...
WorldFocus.org | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
For more than 30 years, a drug war was waged in Bolivia with the help of the U.S. drug enforcement administration. Bolivia's Yungas region is one o...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
For the first time we have an acknowledgment of our failure in Venezuela.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
Will Obama rebuild our relationship with the south on a foundation of respect for democracy? Or will it be more of the same superpower policies cloaked in collaborative and intelligent rhetoric?
Eyck Freymann | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
Evo Morales' charisma and resonant populist message have revolutionary potential throughout the South American continent. The question is only whether he will be thwarted by foreign governments and corporations.
AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian police foiled an alleged plot to assassinate President Evo Morales, killing three men in a 30-minute gunbattle with a...
News24 | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
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....
Thaindian News | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
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...
WorldFocus | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green
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...
democracyctr.org | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
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 ...
AP | PAOLA FLORES | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales on Monday ordered a U.S. diplomat to leave Bolivia for allegedly conspiring with opposition groups, furt...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
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.
Nytimes.com | SIMON ROMERO | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
UYUNI, Bolivia -- In the rush to build the next generation of hybrid or electric cars, a sobering fact confronts both automakers and governments seeki...
Telegraph | Gareth Rubin in La Paz | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
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...
Johann Hari | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
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.
Clusterstock | Jay Yarow | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green
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 ...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 02.17.2009 | World
The visceral response seen across the world to Israel's attacks on Gaza has been described by many as an unprecedented outpouring of support for Pales...
AP | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment
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...
Al Jazeera English | Posted 01.17.2009 | World
Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has said that all Latin American nations should expel US ambassadors in their country's until the American econom...
AP | DAN KEANE | Posted 12.28.2008 | Business
LA PAZ, Bolivia — President George W. Bush is suspending a key trade pact with Bolivia, saying the South American country failed to cooperate wi...
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green