Editor's Note: This is a rare article co-authored by Simon Romero, NYT's favorite counter-revolutionary writers in South America that we can "digest". It's an interesting report about& quinoa, a valuable Bolivian natural resource exploited by foreign countries. It also underscores the effect of malnutrition caused by capitalism, imperialism and the... » read this article

Existing international economic institutions and relations operate in ways detrimental to third world development. That is why eight Latin American and Caribbean countries—led by Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia—are working to build the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a regional initiative designed to promote new, nonmarket-shaped structures and patterns of... » read this article

Update 2: Due to the extremely high degree of interest and numerous comments generated by this event, we interviewed authorities today and took them the questions YOU posted in our forums. (Posted below the video) Update 1: The number of dead fish and other water-dependent wildlife has increased to about... » read this article

  Recent scenes of roadblocks, strikes and even the dynamiting of a vice-minister’s home in the Bolivian department (administrative district) of Potosi, reminiscent of the days of previous neoliberal governments, have left many asking themselves what is really going on in the “new” Bolivia of indigenous President Evo Morales. Since... » read this article

Editor's Note: Margarita Lacabe translated the lyrics of Mercedes Sosa's beautiful revolutionary song, "Juana Azurduy" from Spanish into English. Along with the music video republished below from her website, Margarita describes how she came to revisit the memory of Juana Azurduy, the significance of revolutionary women in Latin American history and the... » read this article

Latin America has seen rapid changes over recent years, most significantly with the rise of left-leaning leaders who are willing to fight massive corporations and even stand up to the massive presence of the US in their countries.  Director Oliver Stone decided to go to Venezuela to meet Chavez for... » read this article

Editor's Note: Correspondent, Hendrick Voss asks: "Will it also take 40 years until we can read the transcripts of conversations that took place in the State Department and in the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa last year when the decision was made that Zelaya’s overtures to the Honduran left wing had... » read this article

United Nations, May 7 (Prensa Latina) "The United States took preference tariffs from Bolivia and we are better off without them," Bolivian President Evo Morales asserted at the UN on Friday. "No more subjection, I do not fear US blackmailing, impositions or conditions," said Morales during a press conference at... » read this article

During Bolivian President Evo Morales’s first official visit to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s home state of Barinas on Thursday, the two socialist allies agreed to continue increasing bi-national cooperation in the areas of food and energy production. The presidents signed accords that will lead to the creation of six joint... » read this article

As the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba closes, we speak to Bolivian President Evo Morales about the US decision to cut off climate aid to Bolivia; narcotrafficking; the tenth anniversary of the Water Wars in Cochabamba; the protest at the San Cristóbal silver mine; and the contradiction... » read this article

Proclaiming its lithium deposits to be a permanent reserve of the state, the Bolivian government last month authorized a new state company to undertake “the full chain of lithium production,” including “exploration, development, industrialization, and marketing.” At issue is the future of Bolivia’s vast Uyuni salt flats, the world’s largest... » read this article

Rafael Quispe is gearing up for his trip. He packs a small leather bag, puts on his black poncho, an alpaca scarf sporting the rainbow-coloured, chequered Andean indigenous flag and his black hat. "This will be an important gathering, a very important gathering. It is about saving our Mother Earth,... » read this article

A different way of fighting global warming will be tried out in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba when government representatives and thousands of activists gather for the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. The social organisations sponsoring the Apr. 19-22 conference have announced... » read this article

When Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, was sworn in to a second term in January, he proclaimed Bolivia a plurinational state that would construct “communitarian socialism.” In an accompanying address, Vice President Álvaro Garcia Linare, envisioned a “socialist horizon” for Bolivia, characterized by “well-being, making the wealth communal, drawing on our... » read this article

Editor's note: For added perspective, we introduce this article on Evo Morales' re-election victory with words from James Petras' assessment: Latin America’s Twenty-First Century Socialism in Historical Perspective "The 21st Century Socialism of Morales’ political practice is far less innovative and ’socialist’ and far closer in political style to 20th... » read this article

Bolivian President Evo Morales announced today that he is to propose a continental referendum on the installation of U.S. military bases in the region at the upcoming Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Summit. “It is the people who should decide as to whether uniformed foreigners should be in South... » read this article

It is a strange and unexpected sight in the middle of Bolivia, a country better known for alpaca sweaters and Marxist revolutionaries, but everyday from the curved towers of a mosque in the city of Santa Cruz goes out the call for Muslim prayer. One would not be embarrassed to... » read this article

I generally find the Economist quite interesting and accurate, if you filter out its obvious bias, it is also good to read stuff you disagree with....what I find really dangerous and literally spooky is the fact that 'progressive' media tells so many lies about Latin America, the Guardian is very... » read this article

Within a week after security forces foiled an assassination plot against President Evo Morales inside Bolivia, the United Nations General Assembly approved on April 22 the president’s initiative to create International Mother Earth Day to protect the rights of Mother Earth and of all living beings. Bolivian security forces on... » read this article

The Head of Government, Jacqueline Faria, will manage the public institutions and public servants of the Capital District, as well as its administration, coordination and control over the organizations of government. The Special Regime of the Capital District is a system of government comprised by an executive body managed by a... » read this article