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Unidad Nacional on campaign
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 05 Feb, 2004 at 01:42 PM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Several weeks ago, Bolivian business mogul Samuel Doria Medina left MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left) & launched his own political party, FUN (Frente de Unidad Nacional). Last week, Doria Medina joined some alteño dirigentes in a march through El Alto. This past week, the party's militantes have been out...
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bolivia | by Mike Derham | 04 Feb, 2004 at 06:21 PM | comments (1) | trackback (0)
Slate will have dispaches for the rest of the week from a reporter travelling through Bolivia. Today's dispatch is from Chaparé, and is a good micro-level look at the economic sources of the popular discontent in that region:...
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 03 Feb, 2004 at 01:16 PM | comments (2) | trackback (0)
Mesa presented his austerity plan (of sorts) Sunday night. There's no gasolinazo nor garrafazo in store — at least not yet. The entire plan includes 23 executive decrees & 3 bills presented for parliament's approval. It also involved six "focus areas": austerity; production, exports & job creation; solidarity; highway infrastructure;...
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 02 Feb, 2004 at 01:48 PM | comments (3) | trackback (0)
There's been some attention paid to the role of El Alto (the sprawling slum twin city of La Paz) in national politics. After all, October's guerra del gas was primarily an alteño affair. It wasn't until after the city of La Paz had been besieged & cut off from the...
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 01 Feb, 2004 at 05:07 PM | comments (2) | trackback (0)
The city's abuzz, anticipating Mesa's big speech tonight at 9pm. He's going to unveil his administration's economic austerity plan. The government has to somehow bridge the gap between income & expenses (it spends about twice as much as it brings in). How'll Mesa do it? What's the big plan?...
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 31 Jan, 2004 at 04:01 PM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
If the "responsibility" trial against Goni includes all his former ministers, why doesn't it also include Mesa, Goni's vice-president? After all, if every single minister (what role did the minister of sports really play?) is considered an "accomplice" to Goni's alleged crimes, why not Mesa, who was vice-president the entire...
Bolivian news roundup
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 30 Jan, 2004 at 04:45 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
It's been a week of interesting tidbits of news. Full of political flip floppery, politically related soccer news, and parliamentary intrigue of various sorts....
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"Fuera carajo, vayan a trabajar"
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 23 Jan, 2004 at 04:48 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
That's the quote that opened a Thursday article on Wednesday's protest march through downtown La Paz. This makes the third march attempted since October (a really small number for the city of manifestaciones), all of which have been heckled by city residents who happened to be out & about....
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Bolivian news roundup
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 21 Jan, 2004 at 04:57 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Bolivia's parliament has gotten together, actually making progress on various issues — most notably changes to 14 articles of the constitution. Among the changes is a notable change to the Article 1 calling Bolivia's democracy "representative & participative." Other changes allow for a Constituent Assembly and the use of public...
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Economic consequences continue
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 10 Jan, 2004 at 05:01 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Newspapers announced the World Bank & IMF have reconsidered Bolivia's risk after October and will act accordingly. The guerra del gas lost Bolivia the option of exporting gas — at any price — until another buyer shows up (Sempra already signed a contract w/ Indonesia). Now it's announced Bolivia's economic...
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9 days & counting
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 08 Jan, 2004 at 05:06 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Mesa's situation is about to get desperate. Everyone knows this; everyone sees it coming. On 17 January, the 90-day truce agreed upon by the leaders of October populist coup (Jaime Solares, Felipe Quispe, Evo Morales, and Roberto de la Cruz) ends. Quispe & de la Cruz have already threatened to...
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Bolivian state of the union
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 05 Jan, 2004 at 05:09 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Bolivia's president, Carlos Mesa, spoke to the nation last night in what was heralded as an important address. This was his first major policy address since he was installed in office after Goni's overthrow. In the end, he said pretty much what everyone expected — though not, perhaps, what everyone...
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