The Cocaleros against the Police, Janury 8th.Burning Cochabamba's State Capitol and property.Blocking Cochabamba's roads.The Youth for Democracy.Note: All images are from AP and Reuters via… Read More

Evo in NicaraguaThe Youth for Democracy meets the police...... and keeps going.Both sides meet.Policemen help an injured member of Youth for Democracy.One cocalero dies.The police is finally… Read More

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Evo has finally returned from his trip to Nicaragua. Bolivian Blog Plan B (in Spanish) reports that he has made a statement to Bolivia on the conflcits. Plan B makes a summary of what Evo sa… Read More

If you have interesting questions about Chavez and Venezuela and would like to see a panel of experts answering them, you can ask the questions to a panel of experts here. Alternatively, you… Read More

I have complied a FAQ on what is going on in Cochabamba, Bolivia. If you missed the genesis of the conflict, you will be able to catch up, while more news appear in the media. How did the co… Read More

While Evo Morales is making a congress-unauthorised trip to celebrate Nicaragua's new president with his boss, Hugo Chavez, clashes between MAS supporters and the Youth for Democracy group h… Read More

Ten day ago, my computer broke down and I have not blogged since. The computer's still broken and may take up to a month fixing it (as long as my thesis is intact, I'm happy, I must say). I… Read More

Sergio Candia just sent me a picture from La Paz.The three amigos appear to be having a great time. This is probably the only thing that Bolivia got out of the ALBA deal with the dictatorshi… Read More

During a Che Guevara celebration, Evo said that he was willing to take arms in order to defend himself, Cuba and Venezuela from the empire. According to La Razon, he saidIt is not the people… Read More

After a week of relative calm in Bolivia, there is a piece of news that catched my attention. Evo's government will start coca industrialization this Saturday. The plan is to start three fac… Read More

The Mexican presidential candidates had their last televised debate yesterday. The importance of this debate lies in that Calderon, PAN's candidate, and Lopez Obrador, PRD's candidate, are g… Read More

Alan Garcia has won the second round of the Peruvian presidential elections. These are good news.This election was of paramount importance not only for Peru but for South America. Peru was d… Read More

LandLa Razon reports that the dialogue between the government and the Eastern landowners is broken. As no consensus could be agreed, Evo's administration has decided to go on an approve seve… Read More

Read an excelent article by Dr. Walker, Democracia en America Latina, here (in Spanish). He correctly points out the dangers of populism. The abstract reads:Tal vez el verdadero dilema que e… Read More

Los Tiempos report yet another paradox of Evo's government: The administration has accused the US of conspiring to assassinate Evo and at the same time have asked to renew the ATPDEA (Andean… Read More

The CAO (Camara de Agropecuarios del Oriente) has announced that they will resist Evo's plans of land reform. To do so, they will create defense committees and did not rule out conflict agai… Read More

Yesterday I wrote about Chavez's plans for a Bolivarian Confederation. It seems that the plan is serious.El Universal reports that the Confederation would integrate the member countries poli… Read More

The last episode of Chavez' talkshow Alo Presidente was recorded in Bolivia (Tiawanaku) and included a glimpse into the dictator's first draft for the next Bolivian Constitution. According t… Read More

Colombia held presidential elections yesterday. Many saw the elections as a referendum on Alvaro Uribe's first term and he was expected to win by a landslide. Well, it seems that Colombians… Read More

Chavez and Cuban vice president Lage went to Evo's launch of campaign for the Constituent Assembly (read about it here). Chavez told the public, straight away, thatEvo is here to stay. The C… Read More

Yesterday, I posted on Evo's reelection plan for the Constituent Assembly (CA). Well, after reading Cochabamba's Los Tiempos, it seems we had only half the story. Under the current constitut… Read More

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Today's headline in La Razon reads "MAS will suggest that the President can be reelected". They are talking of the Constitutional Assembly (CA), of course. The rationale behind it is continu… Read More

The presidential debate between Alan Garcia and Ollanta Humala took place yesterday. According to what I have read, Garcia was a "winner by default", although Humala could stand up to him, l… Read More

Vicepresident Garcia Linera announced that 2 to 4 million ha. would be distributed to peasants, once again by decree. Evo Morales is expected to sign 6 decrees outlining land reform later to… Read More