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Everything you wanted to know about Bolivian politics, but were afraid to ask.

Statement from Colectivo Curva on the resistance of the people of El Alto in response to the ongoing coup attempt in Bolivia. Based in El Alto themselves, Colectivo Curva argue that the native peoples of El Alto remember their history of struggle against the Morales government: they do not fight for him and his party, but against an attack on their communities from the far-right coup plotters.

Le nouveau pouvoir bolivien affirme vouloir mener une transition pacifique jusqu’à l’organisation de nouvelles élections, après le départ forcé d’Evo Morales, qui a dénoncé un coup d’État. Mais la police et l’armée ont réprimé férocement les manifestations de ses partisans, provoquant au moins 21 morts.

The region’s competing models of government—leftist populism and market-oriented liberalism—are both under threat.

Even though Morales agreed to the OAS's push for new elections, the country's opposition and military forced him out.

In office since 2006, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has been overthrown in a coup d’état. Debate on how this happened and what it all means has been proliferating on the international left. Ashley Smith talked with Jeffery R. Webber and Forrest Hylton, two long-time observers of Bolivia, to get a better sense of the issues at stake.

Es clave para entender lo que está sucediendo ahora en Bolivia entender, a su vez, el proceso de división creciente y la degradación que durante los g...

A few conversations today: The young woman working at the front desk at the hotel where I’m staying: When she showed me out, I commented on the sign on the front door which said that they support t…

The decree also states that security forces may use firearms to suppress protests.

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) condemns in the strongest terms the military coup in Bolivia that forced President Evo Morales to resign on November 10, along with Vice President Álvaro García-Linera, the leaders of the Bolivia Senate and Chamber of Deputies, as well as a host of government ministers. All were under personal threat of…

Por Pablo Solón [English version – version française] 1) Evo Morales hubiera terminado su tercer mandato el 22 de enero del 2020 con gran popularidad y con la posibilidad de presentarse, e in…

El levantamiento del pueblo boliviano y de sus organizaciones fue lo que en última instancia provocó la caída del gobierno. Los principales movimientos exigieron la renuncia antes de que lo hicieran las fuerzas armadas y la policía. La OEA sostuvo al gobierno hasta el final. La crítica coyuntura que atraviesa Bolivia no comenzó con el […]

In Bolivia today, no one without a weapon seems to have the right to speak.

Evo Morales, le président bolivien contraint à la démission et qui s’est vu accorder l’asile politique par le Mexique, s’était fait élire en 2006, pour son premier mandat, sur la promesse d’un gouvernement indigéniste et respectueux de l’environnement. Mais il s’en est progressivement éloigné au point de susciter des contestations au sein même de ses anciens alliés. La chercheuse Laetitia Perrier-Bruslé nous explique le projet d’Evo Morales et les résistances qu’il a rencontrées.

Après trois semaines de manifestations pour dénoncer une fraude électorale, Evo Morales, le chef de l’État bolivien, a cédé face à la pression de la rue et a démissionné de la présidence, le 10 novembre, après plus de treize années au pouvoir. Retour sur une fin de semaine qui a fait basculer l’histoire bolivienne.

In today’s election, Evo Morales is running for another term as Bolivian president, after almost fourteen years of sweeping economic and democratic reforms. But his Movement for Socialism is also handing power to young Bolivians to keep the revolution going.

La labor de destruir a Evo y a lo que él representa asumió las características de una realidad sagrada, suprema e incuestionable.

De acuerdo a la constitución boliviana, la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional debe aceptar la renuncia del mandatario, pero en ésta el MAS tiene mayoría.

Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support…

The Comite Ciudadano (Citizens Committee), a right-wing coalition led by Bolivia’s ex-vice-president, Carlos Mesa, and Luis Fernando Camacho, a multimillionaire entrepreneur, leading the extreme

Statement by the NACLA editorial board on Bolivia

Diverse groups oppose Evo Morales, but the right-wing Christian figures representing the country’s old elite that are now grabbing power in Bolivia spells a new tragedy, Bolivian anthropologist Raul Rodriguez Arancibia explains.

Longtime Morales opponent Jeanine Anez stepped into the power vacuum left when the president was deposed in a military coup on Sunday.

Commanders of Bolivia's military and police helped plot the coup and guaranteed its success. They were previously educated for insurrection in the US government's notorious School of the Americas and FBI training programs. By Jeb Sprague Lee