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Venezuela’s Banco del Sur: The End of the IMF in Latin America
by Paul McIvor, www.upsidedownworld.org
March 21, 2007

Speaking to an audience at Columbia Business School in February, Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, sketched out his vision for Latin America. Optimistically titled “The Way Forward,” Mr. de Rato called on the countries of the region to stay the course laid out by the IMF – structural adjustments, trade liberalization and privatization.

He dismissed the shift to the left in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia as an “apparent inconsistency of economic and political developments,” suggesting that voter dissatisfaction has …

Bolivia: The Complex Process of Designing a New State
By Franz Chávez, www.ipsnews.net
March 21, 2007

A unified but decentralised state that recognises Bolivia’s cultural and ethnic diversity is the vision that is gradually gaining broad support in the constituent assembly currently rewriting the country’s constitution.

Eight months into their job, with just four months to go, the assembly’s 255 members are working in committees, drawing up the proposals to be considered by a plenary session.

It took the assembly a full six months, until Feb. 7, simply to agree on voting rules: only a simple majority will be required to approve constitutional reforms …

Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War (2004)
By Marcelo Andrade Arreaza

The following film examines the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connected to the world-wide movement against capitalist globalization. The film shows the evolution of the popular movement in Venezuela from the ‘Caracazo’ riots of 1989 to the massive actions that brought revolutionary president Hugo Chavez back to power, 48 hours after a U.S.-led military coup in 2002. The film ends with an epilogue that show the next steps that the Venezuelan people are taking, not only to fight against the oligarchy and imperialism, but to exercise …

Ecuadorian Native movements turn up the heat
by: Lisa Garrigues - February 19, 2007
www.indiancountry.com/

LA PAZ, Bolivia - On Jan. 15, Native leaders handed the ceremonial ‘’staff of power” to Ecuador’s new president, Rafael Correa. Now indigenous movements in Ecuador are putting the pressure on the Ecuadorian government to meet their demands, which include the convocation of a Constitutional Assembly and increased territorial rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

During the ceremony of Tantarimuy, held in Cotopaxi province, Correa said his government would be ”a government of the indigenous.”

His leftist views align him with Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who …

Bolivia’s social movements make their demands
By Mark Burton, Feb 13, 2007
www.workers.org

For the first time in the last 500 years, the election of President Evo Morales has led to Bolivia’s Indigenous majority gaining a significant voice in the running of their country in a process led by social movements. Despite the opposition from the oligarchy and U.S. imperialism, the Bolivian people have made impressive gains in Morales’ first year.

Much of Bolivian society is organized in groups or associations that are generally referred to as social movements. These social movements are based on neighborhoods, regions, Indigenous groups, and industries and have …

It boggles my mind how a few students going to Bolivia makes the United States into a hero for indigenous People…

The United States continues to support the aspirations of the world’s more than 370 million indigenous people, who historically have been largely excluded from positions of influence in both politics and industry in their own countries.

In Bolivia, for example, U.S. programs have trained nearly 4,500 representatives of indigenous groups on the importance of democracy and the rule of law, and produced democracy-oriented radio programs in widely understood indigenous languages.

A State Department-sponsored program for the second consecutive year recently brought 15

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January 12, 2007 - The TV advert showed smiling farmers walking along a new road with the Prefect of Cochabamba, Manfred Reyes Villa. “Cochabamba is going only one direction,” chirruped the advert, “towards progress.” The advert was grimly inappropriate, as it immediately followed graphic pictures of the corpses of a coca-farmer killed by a bullet and a young man by machetes in clashes between armed groups in Cochabamba.

The growing tension in Bolivia has been palpable in the last month, with rhetoric becoming more and more inflamed on both sides. I feared violence, but even so felt sick to the stomach …