Climate change tops UN chief's talks with Bolivian President 
UN News Service, 7-May-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discussed climate change today with Evo Morales Ayma, the President of Bolivia, which recently hosted a major civil society conference on the issue.
Bolivia claims US stirring up strike trouble
AFP, 7-May-2010: The government of Bolivia Friday accused the United States of fomenting a strike by the country's biggest union next week, as populist President Evo Morales struggled with growing labor unrest.
Another Bolivian nationalisation: Power Grab
The Economist, 6-May-2010: In one of Latin America's least predictable countries it has become almost a ritual: on May 1st each year Evo Morales sends troops to nationalise a batch of companies in politically sensitive industries. This year it was the turn of four electricity generators.
Evo Sticks to 5% Wage Increase; COB Threatens to Blockade Streets
Monthly Review Zine, 6-May-2010: President Evo Morales stuck to the 5% wage increase, ruling out a possibility of revision. Meanwhile, the Bolivian Workers' Center (COB) and manufacturing workers will discuss today the possibility of launching an indefinite general strike and street blockade to demand a higher raise.
MEP Calls For Independent Investigation Into Murder Of Tipperary Man In Bolivia
Clare Herald, 5-May-2010: Alan Kelly said an independent investigation into the killing of Irish Citizen Michael Dwyer is the only possible solution to this most serious issue.
Morales Faces First Workers Protests
IPS News, 5-May-2010: Strikes and demonstrations against the Bolivian government's wage policy have marked the end of a honeymoon period between workers and leftwing President Evo Morales. The government capped general wage hikes at five percent, and at three percent for the police and armed forces. It also raised the national minimum wage by five percent to 679 Bolivian pesos (96 dollars) a month, 32 pesos higher than in 2009.
Alternative proposal to the Copenhagen Accord hammered out in Bolivia
Eurodad, 5-May-2010: The People´s Agreement or the Cochabamba Accord, a declaration produced at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. The conference, a gathering of 30,000 indigenous people, farmers, activists, grassroots leaders and political and government officials, was organised in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the end of April, on the fortieth anniversary of the first Earth Day.
15 Arrested in Bolivia Protests
Latin American Herald Tribune, 5-May-2010: Police arrested 15 union members Tuesday for damaging Bolivia's labor ministry during protests to demand pay hikes bigger than the 5 percent increase mandated by President Evo Morales' socialist government for workers in both the public and private sectors.
Bolivia: Amend Laws for Trials of Ex-Leaders
Human Rights Watch, 4-May-2010: Bolivia should modify its legal framework for prosecuting and putting on trial former heads of state to ensure that it protects basic due process guarantees, Human Rights Watch said today.
Bolivia Throws Down Gauntlet, Demands Real Climate Action
thruthout, 5-May-2010: It was a rounding error: 3, 3.5 million dollars, the amount of funding in climate aid that the United States had taken away from Bolivia, in explicit retribution for Bolivia's filibuster at the Copenhagen Summit this past December, when along with Venezuela, the Sudan, Nicaragua and Ecuador, it effectively scuppered the Copenhagen accords.
Amidst the Rocky Andes, Summiting the Politically Impossible
Huffington Post, 1-May-2010: "Aquí estámos," the campesina's voice rang out, more heart than tongue, "Bolivia, la esperanza del mundo." Here we are: Bolivia, the hope of the world. And there we were, day two of the World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, filling an overflowing classroom serving double duty as the home for the Working Group on the International Climate Tribunal. Her words pierced the dense clouds of Venezuelan flags, lefty beards, cholita skirts and raised hands that misted the air, capturing perfectly the mix of optimism, anger and political courage that defined the conference.
Bolivia Seizes Swiss-Owned Antimony Smelter
Latin American Herald Tribune, 4-May-2010: The Bolivian government nationalized a small antimony smelter in the western province of Oruro belonging to Sinchi Wayra, a subsidiary of Switzerland's Glencore International AG.
Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Peru coordinate mine clearance activities
MercoPress, 4-May-2010: Defence officials from Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Argentina will be participating in a high level meeting to coordinate efforts for the elimination of anti-personnel mines which still remain in border fields of the four countries involved.
France says Bolivia must pay up for nationalizing
Associated Press, 4-May-2010: France's government on Tuesday demanded compensation from Bolivia for the nationalization of a power plant half-owned by French utility GDF Suez.
Chavez: Links with Brazil, Bolivia Fortify Integration
Inside Costa Rica, 3-May-2010: In an assessment of his recent meetings with Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Brazil) and Evo Morales (Bolivia), Chavez recalled that in the first case it was the 9th quarterly meeting agreed as a working mechanism.
May Day march amid multiple social conflicts
World War 4 Report, 3-May-2010: Several thousand marched in the Bolivian capital La Paz on May Day, in a militant display that incessantly shattered the air with hurled firecrackers and some much louder explosives that might have been dynamite. While the main Workers Central of Bolivia (COB) led at the front of the march, contingents ranged from indigenists to Trotskyists to anarchists, with varying degrees of support for (or dissent from) the left-nationalist Evo Morales government.
Oliver Stone Takes His Film on Tour in South America
New York Times, 3-May-2010: Mr. Stone will be in Cochabamba, in central Bolivia, on June 1 to screen his documentary "South of the Border" for an outdoor crowd that is expected to include thousands of indigenous people being gathered by Bolivia's president, Evo Morales.
An outlet for 'silenced' voices: Vermont organizations participate in Bolivia's climate summit
Burlington Free Press, 2-May-2010: Two Vermont grassroots organizations committed to raise awareness about global warming and to fight for ecological justice sent representatives to an international climate summit recently in Bolivia.
Bolivia nationalises energy firms
Al Jazeera English, 2-May-2010: Bolivia has nationalised at least four power companies, expanding state control over the Latin American nation's key industries.
Bolivia's pristine vistas cast spell on Grandview man
Columbus Local News, 2-May-2010: Joe Lowe sits in the middle of the Panera Bread restaurant on Grandview Avenue. On the table in front of him is a photo of low clouds sweeping through verdant mountains.
People for climate
The Hindu, 1-May-2010: Bolivia´s attempt to win fresh support for the Kyoto Protocol is a step ahead in the efforts of the developing world to advance climate negotiations.
Bolivia nationalizes four power companies
Reuters, 1-May-2010: Leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Saturday he had nationalized four power companies, including a subsidiary of France's GDF Suez, in his drive to tighten state control over the impoverished economy.
Bolivia takes over energy firms
BBC News, 1-May-2010: Bolivian President Evo Morales has ordered the nationalisation of four private electricity companies. Police moved into the offices of Corani, Valle Hermoso and Guaracachi firms, following Mr Morales' decree.
ALBA, Nicaragua and the end of Liberalism
Scoop, Independent News, 1-May-2010: That reorganization set out to defend liberal corporate capitalism against perceived threats from communist countries like the Soviet Union and China and from anti-colonialist nationalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Economic and political power enabled Western Bloc countries to impose their cultural and moral agenda around the world. That domination, self-evidently based on military, especially nuclear, superiority, was accompanied by a bogus claim to moral and intellectual superiority.
Bolivian movement pushes for role in climate talks
Press democrat, 7-May-2010: Bolivia's president pressed for a greater role Friday for developing nations in global climate talks and deep cuts in rich nations' greenhouse gases, presenting U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with an alternative climate declaration.
My Trip to Bolivia
By Dayle Haddon, The Huffington Post, May 5, 2010: After a few days traveling through Bolivia, I realized this was a different kind of poverty from the in-your-face version I'd experienced in Africa on other UNICEF trips. There were no makeshift tents housing highly contagious cholera patients, as I'd seen in war torn Angola. Flies did not cover the sad faces of children, as I'd witnessed in camps in Darfur. It was not the plight of displaced children begging for food at an IDP camp outside Goma, in the Congo, where you couldn't offer what you had for fear of causing a riot. The needs in Bolivia were desperate but struck closer to home. It seemed more like what you might encounter in the poorest places in the US. However, as the days went on and we began to scratch beneath the surface, I understood that this was one of the more emotionally challenging trips I had ever experienced. ... The staff of the local NGOs say that the biggest challenge in Bolivia is the protection of children. Abuse, violence and abandonment are commonplace. The borders are not strictly enforced and trafficking of children through Bolivia is easy.
BD Comment: A beautiful, harmonious, simple, and moving article by Ms. Haddon, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, on the reality that tens of thousands of abandoned, orphaned, and impoverished Bolivian children face. The harsh reality is that the vast majority of these children face grinding poverty, malnourishment, loneliness, limited opportunities and numerous other challenges. Scores of blessed volunteers, temporal, and permanent staff from Bolivia and many other nations (including backpackers, voluntourists, aid workers, religious staff) donate time, money, energy, and love to make a difference in the lives of many of these children, and yet the challenge is still enormous. What is difficult to comprehend, and to accept, is that Bolivian society as a whole, and the different regimes that have been elected to govern bolivia over the past decades, have not yet reverted this serious issue which is truly a symptom and shameful sign of our status as an "underdeveloped" nation. What is even more appaling is that Mr. Morales, the current President of Bolivia, has just purchased a $US 38 million private jet and that his self-proclaimed "socialist" government does not seem to have these tens of thousands of children as a top priority in their social agenda.
BD Comment: A beautiful, harmonious, simple, and moving article by Ms. Haddon, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, on the reality that tens of thousands of abandoned, orphaned, and impoverished Bolivian children face. The harsh reality is that the vast majority of these children face grinding poverty, malnourishment, loneliness, limited opportunities and numerous other challenges. Scores of blessed volunteers, temporal, and permanent staff from Bolivia and many other nations (including backpackers, voluntourists, aid workers, religious staff) donate time, money, energy, and love to make a difference in the lives of many of these children, and yet the challenge is still enormous. What is difficult to comprehend, and to accept, is that Bolivian society as a whole, and the different regimes that have been elected to govern bolivia over the past decades, have not yet reverted this serious issue which is truly a symptom and shameful sign of our status as an "underdeveloped" nation. What is even more appaling is that Mr. Morales, the current President of Bolivia, has just purchased a $US 38 million private jet and that his self-proclaimed "socialist" government does not seem to have these tens of thousands of children as a top priority in their social agenda.
Wake up and smell the System
Media Monitors Network, 1-May-2010: The president of Bolivia and the writer from India speak for the majority population of earth which has born the brunt of the worst aspects of western culture. They are sending a wake up call to humanity to solve our existential problems as a race, the only one existing despite the propaganda, ignorance and hatred dividing us into competing national and ethnic entities that confuse learned culture with biological difference and jeopardize our future in the process.