Bolivia

President López Obrador remarked that he was the one “who gave instructions to offer political asylum” to former Bolivian President Evo Morales. And highlighted that he is proud to head a government that concedes such a right. During a press conference last Tuesday morning he said that his government takes up the best tradition of […]

Bolivia is experiencing moments of enormous tension under the violent and large-scale action of right-wing armed groups. They are the so-called Civic Committees of the four departments that compose Media Luna (Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando) and the Cruceñista Youth Union.

Introduction  Between April 9 and 11 of 1952, the Bolivian people, led by the miners (the country’s main industry) rose against the military junta which had been formed to prevent the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR, a nationalist bourgeois party that had won the elections) from taking office.

IWL Statement on the Political Crisis in Bolivia 1- A counterrevolutionary coup in Bolivia, led by opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho, the Armed Forces, and the police, was manipulatively carried out using a popular mobilization, in its progressive onset, against the electoral fraud by Evo Morales. What is happening in Bolivia is part of a […]

Let’s drive a workers’, peasants’ and youth plan of struggle!     The MAS government decided to hold the referendum for modification of the Political Constitution of the State on February 21st, 2016. The goal is to pass the re-election of the President and Vice-President for two consecutive periods, and so to enable Evo Morales […]

The COB and the FSTMB must stop their servile collaboration with the government and regain working class independence.

During the recent events in the Pando department, the most violent ultra right attacks on pro- government peasants took place. Twenty-eight murders have already been proved and forty-five people are missing, about whom nobody knows whether they have also been killed or if they managed to escape from the fascist bands. A video is circulating […]

Created this year, the Unasur (Union of South American Nations) has just had its baptism of fire at the meeting of presidents of the member countries, including Evo Morales. It was held in Chile when the recent Bolivian crisis was in full blaze. A very noticeable even of this meeting, clearly indicating the starring position […]

In the last few decades it has become popular on the world left do dub “fascist” every reactionary right wing  movement, government of policy that promotes repressive policies against mass movements. Thus, from Bush and his policies to numerous organisations and governments all over the world are regarded as “fascists”. This abusive generalisation, initiated by […]

The Constituent Assembly is placed in the centre of the political debate in Bolivia mainly for two reasons. The first one is because of national sovereignty and the democratic character of the main demands of the people (property of natural resources m property of land, rights or the native people, national unity) appears as the […]

The “national issue” is one of the centres of the current Bolivian situation. It is here that it is necessary, in the first place, to make clear difference the two claims of “autonomy” that are confronting each other. This demand of the native Aimara, Quechua and Tupi-Guarani is absolutely just and legitimate because it represents […]

Some left trends regard the Evo Morales administration as part of the Latin American “anti imperialist field” in a fierce combat against imperialism, especially the American one, together with Chavez, Fidel Castro and others. It is obvious that Evo’s administration differs from the ones headed by direct agents of imperialism, such as the Colombian Uribe […]

Mexico and the british imperialism

For an international Campaign for the nationalisation without indemnity of Hydrocarbons in Latin America.