Posts Tagged ‘bolivia’

by Basil Mahayani, Upside Down World 29 May 2008
On Saturday, March 17, local activists in the pueblo of Huacareta inaugurated the Movimiento al Socialismo office as a part of the official campaign launch for the Prefectura in the Department of Chuquisaca. Returning from a brief visit to the internet café, I decided to briefly listen [...]

by John Crabtree in Open Democracy, 31 April 2008
The referendum in Bolivia’s eastern region of Santa Cruz on Sunday 4 May 2008 will - whatever its outcome - stand as a landmark in the country’s history as a unitary nation. The central government may have declared it illegal, but the referendum’s organisers are determined to [...]