By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on October 27, 2022
“No to unemployment, yes to work, workers in Santa Cruz protest bosses strike. photo: AFPPIX
The ultra right-wing governor of the department of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, and his separatist clique have been maintaining an elitist and bosses’ strike against the government of Bolivia since October 21, which has already cost one life and economic losses of tens of millions of dollars. (more…)
September 16, 2022
The IMF released a report today on the Bolivian economy in which it recommends adopting drastic neoliberal measures, including; reducing workers’ salaries, cutting public investments, and ending currency controls. These policies have turned Bolivia from one of the poorest countries in the region into its fastest-growing economy. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva on August 18, 2022
Chile lithium mine
In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s Copiapó province in the Atacama salt flat. The crater, which has a diameter of more than 100 feet, emerged in one of Chile’s most lucrative regions for copper and lithium extraction. The nearby Candelaria mining complex—80 percent of the property is owned by Canada’s Lundin Mining Corporation and 20 percent is owned by Japan’s Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd. and Sumitomo Corporation—had to halt its operations in the area. (more…)
July 7, 2022
An increasing number of Argentinians are holding their savings in Bolivia’s currency (Bolivianos), rather than US dollars, (more…)
June 11, 2022
The relatives of the victims of Jeanine Áñez’s regime demand justice, Photo: Josue Cortez
The First Anti-Corruption Sentencing Court of La Paz sentenced former de-facto Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez to 10 years in prison in the ‘Coup d’état II’ case on Friday, June 10. In the case, Áñez stood accused of crimes of acting against the constitution and illegally assuming the presidency of the country in November 2019, following a right-wing civic-military coup that overthrew democratically elected socialist President Evo Morales. (more…)
By Rogelio Mayta on May 13, 2022
Rogelio Mayta
Humanity is at a turning point. Not only war and climate change threaten life on our planet. Ideologies and some people as well (more…)
By Sebastián Ochoa on January 19, 2022.
Bolivia to the Sea
Two months before Gabriel Boric assumes the Chilean presidency, what can be expected in Bolivia? ‘Sputnik’ consulted two analysts about the future of bilateral relations, battered since the War of the Pacific (1879-1884). In Bolivia they are waiting for March 11, when Gabriel Boric will assume the presidency of Chile, with the expectation of improving relations between the two countries that have not had ambassadors since 1884, the year of the end of the War of the Pacific. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on December 16, 2021 from Havana
Bolivian President Luis Arce and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel
The President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Luis Arce paid an official visit to Cuba last Wednesday after attending the XXth Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), which took place in Havana a day before. This visit to Cuba is a clear signal of the recovery of bilateral relations, (more…)