Bolivia

The uprising encompasses multiple social sectors united in the streets. What began as a list of economic demands has turned into a unanimous call for the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz: Bolivian Workers’ Confederation (COB): on indefinite general strike, demanding real wage increases in the face of devaluation. Peasant and Indigenous Unions: The ‘Túpac Katari’ Federation maintains a total blockade of roads in the Altiplano. Peasants from the Amazon marched on foot for 24 days toward the capital. The Red Ponchos: The historic Aymara indigenous movement from the province of Omasuyos has joined the mass mobilizations through indefinite road blockades, strategic encirclements, and fierce resistance in the Altiplano region and at the main access points to the cities of El Alto and La Paz. Miners and Teachers: Massive columns of miners marched through downtown La Paz, while teachers brought educational activities to a standstill, demanding budget improvements. Marches by social sectors toward the seat of government: Popular formations are walking from Oruro to besiege the capital.

By Alicia Sagra and Julián Ledezma The outcome of the Bolivian elections, which resulted in the defeat of the MAS, had a significant impact on the international press. Newspapers around the world proclaimed the end of 20 years of “21st-century socialism.” Headlines loudly declared, “20 years of 21st-century socialism are over!” Bolivia is changing course! […]

By Alicia Sagra As we have said in several articles, in the midst of an important economic crisis (expressed in the shortage of fuel and dollars) that has left behind the so-called “Bolivian economic miracle”, Bolivia is going through an enormous political crisis generated by the confrontation between the country’s President Luis Arce, and the […]

By Alicia Sagra After having gone through a period of economic growth that was called the “Bolivian miracle”, the country is now in the midst of a major economic crisis. The main expressions of the crisis have been in the shortage of dollars, the difficulty of maintaining the fuel subsidy (gasoline and diesel) which has […]

In Bolivia, a coup took place that forced the resignation of the president Evo Morales and established the Senator Jeanine Áñez as interim president, relying on the Armed Forces. Currently, the strong popular resistance against the coup continues, responded by a harsh repression. In this frame, Evo Morales, exiled in Mexico, calls to the dialogue […]

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 […]