Interview on the issues at stake in Bolivia
Jeffery R. Webber
General elections were held in Bolivia on Sunday, December 6, 2009. A few weeks before these elections I had the opportunity to…
“Summing up the aims of the new regime, Villarroel uttered his most memorable refrain: ‘We are not enemies of the rich, but…
Jeffery R. Webber caught up with New York University historian Sinclair Thomson on September 7, 2007 in Montreal to discuss indigenous and…
La Paz. Monday, May 1, 2006, amidst celebrations and marches commemorating the day of the working class internationally, the Bolivian government nationalized…
Monday morning marked the end of the almost two hundred kilometre, four-day march of around six thousand peasants, coca growers, and others…
At around 8:00 am on Monday morning, massive crowds of mostly poor indigenous Bolivians gathered on the cusp of a mountainside that…
After about a month and a half of relative dormancy, the beginning of last week saw the first interesting signs of renewed…
In the early hours of Monday morning, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the right-wing of La Paz’s middle class are mobilized outside the…