On August 16, after 19 days of blockades and hunger strikes in urban Potosí and surrounding areas, Potosí civic leaders and MAS officials reached an agreement to end protests. After protest leaders and Bolivian government officials met in Sucre, the Morales administration agreed to begin work on the demonstrators’ six demands. […]
On the travels of the the Spanish edition of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia, from a coca leaf vendor in El Alto to a Bolivian dance party in Argentina. […]
El Precio del Fuego: Las luchas por los recursos naturales y los movimientos sociales en Bolivia, Escrito por Benjamin Dangl, Traducido por Ruxandra Guidi Editorial: Haymarket Books En los últimos años han surgido nuevos movimientos […]
In the past year, the government of Alan García has launched an offensive against public universities for privatization as well as for the criminalization of protest. The reduction of the budget, resistance to raising teachers’ […]
En su último año el gobierno de Alan García ha lanzado una ofensiva privatizadora y de criminalización de la protesta contra la universidad pública. La reducción del presupuesto, la resistencia a aumentar el sueldo de […]
Source: Colombia Reports U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Wednesday that Washington hopes Bogota “takes the necessary steps to preserve the bilateral military agreement,” and that in the meantime cooperation will continue under pre-existing […]
In Response Uruguayan Security Forces Launched Death Squads to Hunt and Kill Insurgents Documents posted by the National Security Archive on the 40th anniversary of the death of U.S. advisor Dan Mitrione in Uruguay show […]
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