Rafael Bautista S. That is why it is necessary to transcend 500 years of modern domination and summon the millennial-original still absent in the utopian projection of a global revolution. A true revolution, if it is such, could only be so if it is assumed as a restoration of the sacred in life. Conference given…
Category: BOLIVIA
Bolivia: “It’s Time to Unite, to Develop Joint Initiatives and Expand, in Absolutely Practical Terms”
Rogelio Mayta, Bolivian Chancellor The recent return of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) to power in Bolivia has been an encouragement to progressive and leftist forces in Latin America and the Caribbean. Without a doubt, one of the pillars of the Process of Change experienced in the Andean-Amazon country was its agenda for Foreign Relations,…
Towards a Geopolitics of Popular Power
Rafael Bautista S. The empire forced us to think only and exclusively locally. It is time to think universally. Lecture given at the event: “The Collapse of the Unlawful State and the Recovery of Democracy”, held in La Paz, on December 14, 2020, in the auditorium of the Vice Presidency of the Plurinational State of…
Peoples of Abya Yala Towards Plurinationality
Ollantay Itzamná The plurinational, which is a political concept, raises the need to debate and create states and political communities with the decisive participation of all peoples, through the drafting of new political constitutions, new institutions under the diverse philosophies of the peoples. In San Benito, Cochabamba, Bolivia, between December 18 and 19, 2020, different…
First Meeting of Peoples and Organizations of Abya Yala concludes in Bolivia
Peoples Dispatch Bolivian president Luis Arce and former president Evo Morales inaugurated the first ‘Meeting of Peoples and Organizations of Abya Yaya towards the construction of a Plurinational America’ at the headquarters of UNASUR in the town of San Benito, in the Cochabamba department, Bolivia, on December 18. Photo: Evo Morales/Twitter The meeting of Indigenous…
Guatemala: Two Centuries after the Failed Republic, Plurinational Constituent Assembly
Ollantay Itzamná Young people from the country’s rural areas involved in the Plurinational Constituent Assembly process. MQ. Where and how did the demand for the Plurinational Constituent Assembly in Guatemala come about? The neoliberal system atrophied the bicentennial nation states of Abya Yala to such an extent that in the midst of the official celebration…
Bolivia: Luis Arce Warns Military Cannot Avoid Responsibility in Massacres
The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, warned that the military involved in the repression that left more than thirty dead in different protests against last year’s coup d’état will not be able to evade accountability. “I want to sincerely say to the Armed Forces that it is not possible to evade justice, that as the…
Bolivia: New Gov’t Sets to Work Undoing Damage Left by US-Backed Añez Regime
Alan Macleod Only weeks after their landslide victory, the leftist Movement to Socialism (MAS) party is already enacting widespread changes to Bolivia in an attempt to undo the damage of one year of military rule. Last November, a U.S.-backed coup removed democratically-elected president Evo Morales from power, placing the far-right authoritarian politician Jeanine Añez in power….
“Dialogue of Civilizations”: Evo Morales at Venezuela’s Samuel Robinson Institute
(Use the autotranslate feature) Social movement leader Evo Morales speaks at the Samuel Robinson Institute’s conference, “Dialogue of Civilizations” in Caracas, Venezuela on December 7, 2020. Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa, former President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo and Foreign Minister of Venezuela and Chair of the conference, Jorge Arreaza, also shared discourses. Evo, Correa…
Cochabamba to Host Meeting of Peoples & Organizations of the Abya Yala to Relaunch Unasur, Celac, Alba and Create Runasur
UNASUR headquarters On December 18 and 19, the UNASUR headquarters, built in San Benito, Cochabamba, Bolivia, will be the location of the Meeting of Peoples and Organizations of the Abya Yala towards the Construction of a Plurinational America. This event is convened as a result of the meeting of representatives of organizations of indigenous native…
A Bolivian Army General Detained for the Sacaba Massacre
The commander of the military garrison of Cochabamba, General of the Bolivian Army Alfredo Cuellar, was arrested by the region’s prosecuting authorities for an alleged crime of murder in the massacre that took place in Sacaba on November 15, 2019, where at least eleven people died from bullet wounds. This was communicated by his lawyer,…
“Diplomacy of the Peoples”: Evo Morales on the Return of Bolivia to ALBA, CELAC and UNASUR
This Saturday Former President of Bolivia Evo Morales celebrated the announcement made by the Foreign Ministry that Bolivia will rejoin regional integration organizations based on the diplomacy of the peoples, from which it had departed during the de facto government headed by Jeanine Áñez. In a tweet, Morales expressed his satisfaction regarding the re-entry of…
