He directed the purchase of tear gas and non-lethal weapons at inflated prices during Jeanine Añez de facto administration and is currently detained in the U.S. Bolivia’s Attorney General Wilfredo Chavez confirmed the judicial hearing […]
BY JOE EMERSBERGER | FAIR One can imagine an editor of the London-based Guardian (3/17/21) shaking her head sadly as she typed the headline: “Cycle of Retribution Takes Bolivia’s Ex-President From Palace to Prison Cell.” The subhead told […]
BY BENJAMIN DANGL MAS supporters celebrate in La Paz following electoral victory. Photo credit: Thomas Becker. Against all odds, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party won the October 18th elections in Bolivia with 55.1% of the […]
by Cassandra Howarth As the much-delayed Bolivian election approaches, and with the presidential candidate of Evo Morales’ Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) way ahead in the polls, the right-wing coup government that seized power a year […]
by VIJAY PRASHAD – MANUEL BERTOLDI Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair On November 10, 2019, President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia announced his resignation from the presidency. Morales had been elected in 2014 to a third presidential term, […]
Bolivia’s ‘lithium coup’ is yet another example of a regime-change operation carried out at the behest of imperialist corporations. Proletarian writers In July, billionaire Elon Musk, a grown man with all the maturity of a […]
by VIJAY PRASHAD – ALEJANDRO BEJARANO Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second U.S. “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people.” Someone responded to […]
The billionaire CEO of Tesla and lithium-exploiting capitalist has admitted his role in the November coup. The CEO of the U.S.-based Telsa car manufacturer has admitted to involvement in what President Morales has referred to […]
The self-proclaimed President Añez says her administration’s priority is “the economy.” Bolivia’s coup-born government led by Jeanine Añez Thursday announced the closure of its diplomatic offices in Nicaragua and Iran. RELATED: COVID-19 Death Threat to Bolivian Amazon’s Indigenous Peoples […]
The Bolivian state recognizes at least 36 Indigenous nations that are sparsely populated. Bolivia’s Center for Legal Studies and Social Research (CEJIS) denounced that the COVID-19 pandemic can devastate the Bolivian Amazon’s Indigenous peoples close to the […]