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Historically, Bolivia’s natural resources such as gold, tin, and coal have been exploited by foreign investors who made enormous profits while most Bolivians remained impoverished. In the Gas War, many Bolivians tried to defend one […]

At this year’s Ibero-American Presidential Summit and parallel Alternative Social Forum, two opposing forces in Latin America’s fierce polemic over the direction of its own social and economic progress were well defined. The twenty one […]

Legalizing the Colonization of the Americas Cochabamba, Bolivia–This interview took place a month after Bolivia’s Gas War, a massive social uprising against the proposal to export the nation’s gas to the US through a Chilean […]

Bolivia’s conflicts regarding the proposal to export the nation’s gas to the US through a Chilean port proved to be the spark that fueled a much larger fire of national discontent. Arising from the din […]

In the past three days, in the city of El Alto, a prolonged confrontation between security forces and protesters resulted in thirty dead over one hundred wounded, the great majority from bullet wounds. Protesters in […]

Conflicts increase, lack of dialogue persists in Bolivia’s Gas War On the twenty-first anniversary of Bolivia’s return to democratic rule, the government continues to close democratic spaces, provoking further conflicts in the country. The ruling […]

Explicit efforts to link Bolivian coca growers to Colombian revolutionary groups, such as the ELN and the FARC, continue. U.S. officials have begun to publicly express concerns about narco-terrorism in Bolivia, although the country’s armed […]

An intense series of road blockades, protests and strikes continue to gain momentum across Bolivia as new sectors enter the movement against the exportation of the country’s gas to the US. The geographical and political […]

Cochabamba, Bolivia–A new cycle of conflict has developed in Bolivia as worker unions, coca farmers and ordinary citizens unite to prevent the sale of the nation’s gas reserves to the United States through a Chilean port. […]