Evo Morales

En medio de feroces disputas internas y crisis económica, la izquierda boliviana sufrió una fuerte derrota después de casi dos décadas de gobierno innovador.

Amidst bitter infighting and economic crisis, Bolivia’s left suffered a major defeat after nearly two decades of groundbreaking governance.

La crisis económica y política en Bolivia es un síntoma de la decadencia moral del partido Movimiento al Socialismo, que pone en cuestión sus otrora promesas y horizontes revolucionarios.

Bolivia’s economic and political crisis is a symptom of the moral decay of the Movement Towards Socialism party, putting into question its once revolutionary promises and horizons.

Bolivia enters a multi-sided and violent crisis as the former president, facing sexual abuse charges and gunfire, presses to appear on the ballot again.

Farthing and Becker's book sheds new light on the violence of the interim government as well as the heroic resistance of Bolivian social movements.

A NACLA Radio interview with Bret Gustafson and Niki Fabricant on their article, "Revolutionary Extraction?” from the latest NACLA Report, Free Trade 2.0.

A NACLA Radio interview with Bret Gustafson and Niki Fabricant on their article, "Revolutionary Extraction?" from the latest NACLA Report, Free Trade 2.0.

Beyond binaries and generalizations, vilification and glorification, where do we find Latin America's left turn today?

Threatened by new forms of indigenous and populist power, Bolivian agrarian and political elites have regrouped after a series of setbacks since President Evo Morales was first elected in 2005. They are now working within the realm of "popular citizenship," joining forces across regional bounds to demand territorial "autonomy" and decentralized governance to maintain control over the resource wealth in their departments (states). The new legalistic, human rights frame provides a powerful and distinctive platform for rightists, which once again places them center stage in Bolivian politics.   This article first appeared in the January/February 2011 edition of NACLA Report on the Americas.

On December 10, President Evo Morales promulgated Bolivia's new pension law at the headquarters of the Bolivian Workers Central (COB), the country's militant national trade union federation. The unprecedented and highly symbolic event culminated a four-year negotiating process, during which the COB agreed to suspend its mobilization for higher wages in exchange for comprehensive pension reform.

In early July in Sicaya, Cochabamba, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that if he wins the August 10 recall vote on his presidency, "I'll have two and half years left." But if he loses the vote, "I'll have to go back to the Chapare" to farm coca again. Though the recall vote is likely to favor Morales, it's unclear if it will resolve many of the divided nation's conflicts.