Podcasts about Bolivians

Paul Zinnard, el músico mallorquín, afincado en Madrid, ha publicado nueve discos con su primera banda The Bolivians y con el grupo The Pauls. Y en su camino en solitario acaba de estrenar su segundo álbum Amateurs in Yokohama. Un trabajo en el que ha estado acompañado por David Aldave (The Flamingos Bite), Patricia De Velasco (guitarras y coros) y Javier Wandosell ( fotografía ) entre otros. Algunos como Juan Vicedo ( Revista Dirty Rock Magazine) aportan una mirada muy personal a estas diez canciones de letras tan sinceras que a veces son demasiado crudas. Y otros, como Juanjo Mestre (Revista musical Exile SH Magazine ) nos resumen la carrera de este autor con referencias al pop rock anglosajón.Escuchar audio

When Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon”, escaped Europe at the end of the war and fled to Latin America, he didn't follow his fellow Nazis into hiding. In fact, Barbie remained on the books of western spy agencies, including the CIA, and reaped enormous wealth, power, and protection. Barbie then hooked up with the fascists and druglords of Bolivia, christened a death squad called the “Bridesgrooms of Death” — and took the country in a brutal coup backed so far to the hilt by marching powder, that Bolivians still call it the “Cocaine Coup”. But Barbie's work wasn't done there. As reporters and Nazi hunters uncovered his true identity, the fugitive mass-murderer connected Bolivian “King of Cocaine” Roberto Suarez Gomez with the cartels of Colombia, birthing the modern-day blow industry. And he would even become friends with nascent narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened marginally higher this morning from yesterday's close, at 22,170 on turnover of 2.5-billion N-T. The market gained on Friday, as investors were buoyed by Wall Street's romping to record highs overnight after the U-S following the Federal Reserve's decision to make big interest rate cuts. MND Reveals FPV Drone Development Project The Ministry of National Defense has confirmed that a recent promotional video showed footage of a first-person view drone system. The statement comes after the Military News Agency released video footage of the drone system earlier this month. That footage showed soldiers using laptops and remote controls to launch small, explosive-laden drones, which detonated on striking a car and speedboat being used as targets (目標). F-P-V drones are piloted from the drone's point of view via an onboard camera, footage from which is transmitted to the pilot's monitor screen or video goggles. Investigators into Possible Foul Play in Taitung Food Poisoning Case The Taitung District Prosecutors' Office says it is considering the possibility of foul play in a food poisoning case last week that left three people dead. The statement comes after test results from the scene showed suspiciously (可疑地) high levels of pesticide in the first victim's kitchenware. According to chief prosecutor Chen Yen-qiu, authorities are looking into the source of millet and the preparation process of glutinous millet dumplings, which were discovered to contain a high level of terbufos. Terbufos is a hazardous chemical compound found in some pesticides. US Polling Shows Tight Race with Harris Increasing Lead New polling over the weekend shows US Vice President Kamala Harris has increased her lead (領先) nationally over her Republican rival Donald Trump in the Presidential election. Our Washington Correspondent Jagruti Dave has the details. Bolivia Clashes between Protesters and Supporters Bolivia's pro-government supporters and security forces have confronted (面對) protesters loyal to former President Evo Morales in a street melee. The protesters and counterprotesters hurled firecrackers, small dynamite bombs and stones at each other across a dusty sprawl in the city of El Alto on Sunday, while riot police unleashed tear gas into the crowds. Health authorities say at least eight people were injured. The standoff erupted while thousands of Bolivians supporting Morales continued a weeklong march to the capital. Report: Rhino Population Rises Slightly, but Killings Rise A new report finds that the rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat. Conservationists said in the report that the number of white rhinos increased by just over 1-thousand-500 from 2022, to 2023, but the black and greater one-horned rhino stayed the same. Another subspecies, the northern white rhino, is technically extinct with only two females being kept in a secure private conservancy (自然保護區,) in Kenya. With all five subspecies combined, there are just under 28-thousand rhinos left in the world, from 500,000 at the beginning of the 20th century. That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____. －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ 高雄美術特區2-4房全新落成，《惟美術》輕軌C22站散步即到家，近鄰青海商圈，卡位明星學區，徜徉萬坪綠海。 住近美術館，擁抱優雅日常，盡現驕傲風範！美術東四路X青海路 07-553-3838 -- 遠東商銀Podcast節目《十樂不設

Emma Condori Mamani does the work of connection and compassion from her home base in La Paz, Bolivia. Emma has witnessed dramatic changes to the roles of indigenous Bolivians in that society, changes that have led her to higher education and work with the Friends International Bilingual Center.

Bolivians go to the polls on 1 December 2024 in a referendum to decide on the removal of fuel subsidies and to define whether to admit continuous or discontinuous presidential re-election. As if this weren't enough, on the same date, there are also judicial elections and another challenge to be clarified in the referendum is the shortage of dollars in the country. Everything points to a significant clash of politics and personalities between the current embattled President Luis Arce and former president Evo Morales as we gear up for the first round of presidential elections in August 2025. On the LatinNews podcast this week, we talk to Dr John Crabtree, research associate at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, associate of the Politics Department at Brookes University in Oxford, region head for Latin America at Oxford Analytica Ltd. and author of: "Business Power and the State in the Central Andes. Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison," published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

Bolivians go to the polls on 1 December 2024 in a referendum to decide on the removal of fuel subsidies and to define whether to admit continuous or discontinuous presidential re-election. As if this weren't enough, on the same date, there are also judicial elections and another challenge to be clarified in the referendum is the shortage of dollars in the country.  Everything points to a significant clash of politics and personalities between the current embattled President Luis Arce and former president Evo Morales as we gear up for the first round of presidential elections in August 2025.  On the LatinNews podcast this week, we talk to Dr John Crabtree, research associate at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, associate of the Politics Department at Brookes University in Oxford, region head for Latin America at Oxford Analytica Ltd. and author of: "Business Power and the State in the Central Andes. Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison," published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

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Bolivia's president is facing accusations that he plotted a coup attempt against himself to boost his popularity. The attempt, which took place last week, lasted just three hours - during which time President Luis Arce rallied Bolivians to "mobilise" to defend democracy, apparently defused the mutiny in a one-on-one confrontation and appointed a new military command. Dan Collyns is a freelance reporter based in Peru. He spoke with Ingrid Hipikiss.

In international news Bolivians rallied outside the president's palace a day after a failed coup attempt. In Asia, Julian Assange spent his first night in 14 years as a free man back at home in Australia and in Singapore news users of the Causeway experienced traffic congestion this morning due to the crossing's centenary celebrations. Synopsis: A round up of global headlines to start your day by The Business Times.  Written by: Lee Kim Siang / Claressa Monteiro (claremb@sph.com.sg)  Recording engineer: Joann Chai Pei Chieh Produced and edited by: Lee Kim Siang & Claressa Monteiro Produced by: BT Podcasts, The Business Times, SPH Media --- Follow Lens On Daily and rate us on: Channel: bt.sg/btlenson Amazon: bt.sg/lensam Apple Podcasts: bt.sg/lensap Spotify: bt.sg/lenssp YouTube Music: bt.sg/lensyt Google Podcasts: bt.sg/lensgo Website: bt.sg/lenson Feedback to: btpodcasts@sph.com.sg Do note: This podcast is meant to provide general information only. SPH Media accepts no liability for loss arising from any reliance on the podcast or use of third party's products and services. Please consult professional advisors for independent advice.  Discover more BT podcast series: BT Mark To Market at: bt.sg/btmark2mkt  WealthBT at: bt.sg/btpropertybt PropertyBT at: bt.sg/btmktfocus BT Money Hacks at: bt.sg/btmoneyhacks BT Market Focus at: bt.sg/btmktfocus BT Podcasts at: bt.sg/podcasts BT Branded Podcasts at: bt.sg/brpod BT Lens On: bt.sg/btlenson  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Violeta Ayala's documentary 'La Lucha', showcasing disabled Bolivians fighting for pensions, not only secured these pensions but also transformed societal perceptions of disability. Premiered at Blackstar Film Festival, it will air globally in 2024.

James Bond is here to make water more affordable for Bolivians. Daniel Craig stars in his second outing as secret agent James Bond, Quantum of Solace, which had the difficult task of being the direct sequel to the well-loved Casino Royale. Most Bond fans will tell you that it's an inferior follow up, but can they tell you why? These two Bond fans can! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whywasntitbetter/message

The Brian's put to the world that all difficult issues and how to deal with them now must enter the 23rd Century. No more Boycotting or even Girlcotting. One and all must show respect and only use Gaycotting or Lesbiancotting if they choose to rebuke any organisation or individual.  About fucking time!The Brian's look deep into the Abyss that is the cost of cat food and cat insurance. The costs associated with rearing litters of cats and getting a sound insurance that covers arson has made feline ownership a supply chain crisis.The Brian's discuss public holidays and analyse why Tummy Rubbing Wednesday is the most important day off for 6 out of 17 Bolivians.On a religious note, the Brian's castrate a Bishop live on air. Hurrah.

Elizabeth Shesko argues that conscription evolved into a pact between the state and society. It was not only imposed from above but also embraced from below because it provided a space for Bolivians across divides of education, ethnicity, and social class to negotiate their relationships with each other and the state. Shesko contends that state formation built around military service has been characterized in Bolivia by multiple layers of negotiation and accommodation. The resulting nation-state was and is still hierarchical and divided by profound differences, but it never was simply an assimilatory project. It instead reflected a dialectical process to define the state and its relationships.

Elizabeth Shesko argues that conscription evolved into a pact between the state and society. It was not only imposed from above but also embraced from below because it provided a space for Bolivians across divides of education, ethnicity, and social class to negotiate their relationships with each other and the state. Shesko contends that state formation built around military service has been characterized in Bolivia by multiple layers of negotiation and accommodation. The resulting nation-state was and is still hierarchical and divided by profound differences, but it never was simply an assimilatory project. It instead reflected a dialectical process to define the state and its relationships.

MessyTimes is honored to have Jim Hawes visit us to discuss his experience in fighting the free-market capitalist corner over a long and exciting career. Upon the expiry of his operation's classified status, Jim wrote a wonderful book about his work in Central Africa in 1965, Cold War Navy SEAL: My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa. We touch on his valuable service to the nation and humanity by shooing Che Guevara out of Africa so the Bolivians could do the world a huge favor by removing this evil murdering sociopathic parasite from amongst the living, before discussing Jim's experience in private equity in then-emerging markets in Asia. Join us to find out why - among other things - he deserves at least 1/7th of the credit for introducing American fast food to Asia! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/support

Barry: Season 3, Episode 3 "Ben Mendelsohn" As Barry and Gene take on new opportunities, Sally prepares for her first press junket, and Katie shares her concerns; with the Bolivians still in heavy pursuit, Hank reaches out to Fuches, while Cristobal pitches a new tactic to Fernando.     Scorecard:  9.6/10    Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com (audio MP4 or written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle

Welcome to The Rest Is History's definitive guide to the history of the FIFA World Cup, which looks past the football and uncovers the personalities, geopolitics, and drama behind the tournament.In the first of three episodes, Tom and Dominic debate whether the global game is a product of British Imperialism, vicious South American rivalries, Bolivians playing in berets, the looming shadow of the Second World War, Mussolini, Hitler, and more.Join The Rest Is History Club (www.restishistorypod.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community.Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Email: restishistorypod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah T. Hines's Water for All Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (University of California Press, 2021) chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, the country's third largest city and most important agricultural valley. Covering the period from 1879 to 2019, Hines examines the conflict over control of the region's water sources, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Through analysis of a wide variety of sources from agrarian reform case records to oral history interviews, Hines investigates how water dispossession in the late nineteenth century and reclaimed water access in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries prompted, shaped, and strengthened popular and indigenous social movements. The struggle for democratic control over water culminated in the successful Water War uprising in 2000, a decisive turning point for Bolivian politics. This story offers lessons in contemporary resource management and grassroots movements for how humans can build equitable, democratic, and sustainable resource systems in the Andes, Latin America, and beyond. Water for All is essential reading for Andeanists and scholars of social and environmental movements in the Americas. Elena McGrath is an Assistant Professor of History at Union College Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Sarah T. Hines's Water for All Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (University of California Press, 2021) chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, the country's third largest city and most important agricultural valley. Covering the period from 1879 to 2019, Hines examines the conflict over control of the region's water sources, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Through analysis of a wide variety of sources from agrarian reform case records to oral history interviews, Hines investigates how water dispossession in the late nineteenth century and reclaimed water access in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries prompted, shaped, and strengthened popular and indigenous social movements. The struggle for democratic control over water culminated in the successful Water War uprising in 2000, a decisive turning point for Bolivian politics. This story offers lessons in contemporary resource management and grassroots movements for how humans can build equitable, democratic, and sustainable resource systems in the Andes, Latin America, and beyond. Water for All is essential reading for Andeanists and scholars of social and environmental movements in the Americas. Elena McGrath is an Assistant Professor of History at Union College Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Sarah T. Hines's Water for All Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (University of California Press, 2021) chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, the country's third largest city and most important agricultural valley. Covering the period from 1879 to 2019, Hines examines the conflict over control of the region's water sources, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Through analysis of a wide variety of sources from agrarian reform case records to oral history interviews, Hines investigates how water dispossession in the late nineteenth century and reclaimed water access in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries prompted, shaped, and strengthened popular and indigenous social movements. The struggle for democratic control over water culminated in the successful Water War uprising in 2000, a decisive turning point for Bolivian politics. This story offers lessons in contemporary resource management and grassroots movements for how humans can build equitable, democratic, and sustainable resource systems in the Andes, Latin America, and beyond. Water for All is essential reading for Andeanists and scholars of social and environmental movements in the Americas. Elena McGrath is an Assistant Professor of History at Union College Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latin-american-studies

Sarah T. Hines's Water for All Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (University of California Press, 2021) chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, the country's third largest city and most important agricultural valley. Covering the period from 1879 to 2019, Hines examines the conflict over control of the region's water sources, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Through analysis of a wide variety of sources from agrarian reform case records to oral history interviews, Hines investigates how water dispossession in the late nineteenth century and reclaimed water access in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries prompted, shaped, and strengthened popular and indigenous social movements. The struggle for democratic control over water culminated in the successful Water War uprising in 2000, a decisive turning point for Bolivian politics. This story offers lessons in contemporary resource management and grassroots movements for how humans can build equitable, democratic, and sustainable resource systems in the Andes, Latin America, and beyond. Water for All is essential reading for Andeanists and scholars of social and environmental movements in the Americas. Elena McGrath is an Assistant Professor of History at Union College Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

Sarah T. Hines's Water for All Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (University of California Press, 2021) chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, the country's third largest city and most important agricultural valley. Covering the period from 1879 to 2019, Hines examines the conflict over control of the region's water sources, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Through analysis of a wide variety of sources from agrarian reform case records to oral history interviews, Hines investigates how water dispossession in the late nineteenth century and reclaimed water access in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries prompted, shaped, and strengthened popular and indigenous social movements. The struggle for democratic control over water culminated in the successful Water War uprising in 2000, a decisive turning point for Bolivian politics. This story offers lessons in contemporary resource management and grassroots movements for how humans can build equitable, democratic, and sustainable resource systems in the Andes, Latin America, and beyond. Water for All is essential reading for Andeanists and scholars of social and environmental movements in the Americas. Elena McGrath is an Assistant Professor of History at Union College Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello Interactors,EVs made headlines this week as members of the U.S. Congress continue to chase their tail in search of remnants of the Green New Deal. I talked about cobalt last week as a key ingredient for lithium-ion batteries, but a new bill offered by congress this week has implications for another, more obvious, mineral — lithium. The biggest source is in an environmentally sensitive area of Bolivia, and U.S.-Bolivian relations are equally sensitive.As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…THE PARADOX OF NATURAL STOCKSToday is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. These words appeared on a ceramic plaque in the shape of a tea kettle that hung in the kitchen of my grandma’s house. Why do we worry about tomorrow? Is it because we don’t know what it brings? No way to control it? We wake up every day in a past tomorrow living in a future yesterday. Today’s tomorrows are becoming increasingly worrisome on a warming planet that needed help yesterday.Democrats in Washington DC worried about tomorrow focused their action, in part, on Electric Vehicles (EV) this week. As part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, they hope to expand EV tax credits and invent $10 billion in investment tax credits to build clean-technology manufacturing facilities.There’s a provision on the EV tax credit regarding the sourcing and processing of the minerals needed to make the lithium-ion batteries found in EVs. It says, “with respect to the battery from which the electric motor of such vehicle draws electricity,” a certain percentage of the “critical minerals contained in such battery” must be ‘‘(i) extracted or processed in any country with which the United States has a free trade agreement in effect, or (ii) recycled in North America.”This might explain why Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for more ‘friend-shoring’ while in Seoul South Korea earlier this week. That’s a term she uses to woo countries into trade practices agreeable to the U.S. She chose South Korea because we need their lithium-ion battery production. In April, LG announced plans for a $1.4 billion battery plant in Queen Creek, Arizona. They are the number two battery producer in the world behind China.The provision isn’t just about the source of the battery, but the source of the materials in the battery. Their key ingredient – lithium – will most likely come from one or more of three countries in Latin America. They’ll need to be ‘Friend-shored’ if America wants to dominate the EV market. The country with the largest and most accessible source, Bolivia, has no shore and recently have not been friendly with the United States.The world’s largest lithium reserves sit in the Atacama Desert which forms a triangulated region known as the “Lithium Triangle”. It sits within the geopolitical boundaries of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile which were drawn in the 19th century. Bolivia, now home to the largest population of Indigenous people, became land locked when Chile crushed them in the War of the Pacific from 1879-1884. They took away land that gained Bolivia access to the Pacific Ocean. Bolivia lost even more land in the Gran Chaco region to Paraguay after the Chaco War from 1932–35Much of the international law that governs these disputes were written to advantage American and European colonist expansion. They were part of a neoliberal agenda by the global North to ensure the rights of these borders and those legally living within them, but also to exploit their natural and human resources. Latin American countries rich with natural resources were eager to participate in the global economy. Many in these Latin American countries viewed their natural resources as an economic blessing – a way to secure and grow their new nation’s economic prosperity amidst a burgeoning global economy. But for most, it was a curse that invited environmental degradation and poverty at the hands of outsiders. This paradox was observed as early as 1711 in a British publication, The Spectator, "It is generally observed, that in countries of the greatest plenty there is the poorest living." In 1995 economist Richard Auty saw this geographical pattern occurring in East Asia, Africa, and Latin America and gave it a name: ‘Resource Curse’.Auty observes the curse is often explained away by neoliberals as a factor of work ethic; they are simply too lazy to keep up with ‘advanced’ economies or lack the necessary resources. But he says politics are blamed as well. The U.S. has spent centuries of time, energy, and money backing Latin American neoliberal regimes and schemes toward their globalist agenda. Both overtly and covertly and always rhetorically. Authoritatively from the right, ‘Peace through Strength’, or diplomatically from the left, ‘Friend-shoring.’The United States has long envisioned an American continent that mimics the United States. University of Iowa international law professor, Christopher Rossi, writes, “Latin Americanism emerged from a deeply circumspect nineteenth century regard for hegemonic foreign policy intentions of the United States, which had weaponized the defensive construct of its Monroe Doctrine (1823) with the annexation of Texas (1845), the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and an assortment of turn of-the-century interventions and power plays in the Caribbean and Central America over future control of the Panama Canal.”One of the most recent power plays came with the suspected ousting of one of only two elected Indigenous leaders in the history of colonized America, in a country rich with lithium, Bolivia’s 65th president, Evo Morales.REAGAN BIRTHS A POLITICIANEvo Morales was born in western Bolivia in a small Indigenous Aymara village to farmers in 1959. As a young boy he helped his dad grow coca and trade it in the markets of Cochabamba, Bolivia’s third largest city. It took two weeks by foot to get there. Coca is an Aymaran word, “Khoka” – ‘the tree’. It is most associated with cocaine, but the leaf has been central to Andean culture for thousands of years. It’s one of the oldest cultivated plants in South America and has been used as currency, tea, and was even the original ingredient in Coca-Cola. (Kola is a caffeinated African nut) Coca is also commonly chewed by Andeans. Saliva breaks down the leaf to release alkaloids; none of which produce the euphoric effects of processed coca for cocaine but are believed to have health benefits.Growing up, Evo Morales learned Spanish and attended the Agrarian Humanistic Technical Institute of Orinoca (ITAHO), but never finished. After his military service, he became a coca grower. As cocaine gained popularity in America in the 70s, the price of coca increased and farming coca became popular. Morales soon joined a farmers union protecting Indigenous rights to farm coca for traditional Andean purposes in the face of competition among many, and hostilities toward some, coca growers.In 1980 a far-right, anti-union, military dictator, Luis García Meza, became displeased with Bolivia’s turn toward a more pro-civilian communitarian government. He also sensed the decline of the Carter administration in the U.S. and gambled on the country swinging to the right in line with his beliefs. So, as Reagan entered the White House Meza took military control of Bolivia. A year later soldiers kidnapped a coca farmer accusing him of trafficking cocaine, beat him up, and burned him to death. This event is what spurred the young Evo Morales into politics.Reagan distanced himself from Meza, who was eventually pressured to resign. His replacement was a leftist moderate, Hernán Siles Zuazo, who had served previously as president in the 1950s. Amid widespread poverty he came to the U.S. for aid. They agreed under the condition Bolivia would adopt their neoliberal economic plan. That plan involved the privatization of Bolivia’s natural resources – including the coca plant.With Siles back in office in the 1980s, Reagan had a neoliberal ally and a partner in his infamous War on Drugs. Reagan pressured Siles to use military force to suppress coca growers. The U.S. sent troops to help burn coca fields. There were reports of beatings should owners resist. Farmers were offered $2500 an acre to voluntarily eradicate their crops. Morales was one of them and he refused. In that moment, the coca plant became a symbol of Bolivian natural resources, and his Indigenous Andean ancestral heritage, and he didn’t like U.S. imperialists threatening to control it. Activists protested chanting, “Long live coca! Death to the Yankees!"Evo Morales organized similar protests throughout the 1980s and 90s and rose through the ranks of various union groups. He took leadership of MAS (Movement for Socialism) – “an indigenous-based political party that calls for the nationalization of industry, legalization of the coca leaf ... and fairer distribution of national resources." By the 2002 elections MAS became Bolivia’s second largest party gaining 20% of the popular vote.In 2003, more protest erupted after a U.S. company offered to buy a nationalized natural gas pipeline for below market value. Activists took to the street resulting in 80 people dead. Morales called for President Sánchez de Lozada to resign. Lozada fled to Miami, Florida and was replaced by Carlos Mesa who had ties to U.S. In 2004 he resigned fearing a civil war between the upper-class White Bolivian elites concentrated in major cities and the rural working and middle class. In 2005, 85% of Bolivians turned out to vote. Evo Morales earned 54% of the total. This was the first victory by absolute majority in Bolivia in 40 years and the highest national vote percentage of any presidential candidate in Latin American history.President Morales maintained focus on state sovereignty over natural resources. His administration nationalized Bolivian oil and natural gas, telecommunications, electricity, and restructured a state-owned mining company. Thanks to high international commodity prices, for the first time since its borders had been ratified, Bolivia experienced a continuous economic public-sector surplus between 2006-2013.Because of his extractive agenda, Morales is sometimes regarded as capitalist; but a communitarian one. Instead of the profits going to privately held companies and select shareholders, they fund social programs. Morales is also regarded as an environmentalist and a voice for climate justice. His philosophy links to Andean Indigenous heritage and a widely held Amerindian belief in natural rights called “Buen Vivir” or “Living Well”. He ensconced many of these philosophies into the Bolivian constitution. His actions made Bolivia a world leader in encoding Indigenous and natural rights into law.His ‘Living Well’ Bolivian laws, were simply following international law. The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth is part of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. It was this ratification that declared April 22 as International Earth Day. The Declaration is intended to spur every country in the world to enact laws and practices that recognize “Mother Earth is the source of life, nourishment and learning and provides everything we need to live well.” (my italics) There is a difference between ‘living well’ and ‘living better’. The current dominant economic philosophy encourages competition between individuals to live better then another, but Morales, and the UN are asking, what if we all could live well?BATTERY POWERED COUPThe aim to for all to live well is why Morales included laws like: “The State and any individual or collective person must respect, protect, and guarantee the rights of Mother Earth for the well-being of current and future generations” There are 58 articles intended to help countries regulate ‘Living Well’, including: “non-commercialization of the environmental functions of Mother Earth; integrality; precautionary action; guarantee to restore Mother Earth; guarantee to regenerate Mother Earth; historical responsibility; priority of prevention; plural participation; water for life; solidarity among human beings; harmonious relation; social justice; climate justice; plural economy; complementarity and equilibrium; and dialogue of traditional knowledges and science.”It also includes a ‘Right to Development’ that Morales was following with his extractive economic policy.“the right to development [as] an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development, in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized.”The Organization of American States (OAS), an organization largely funded by the U.S. government and headquartered in Washington D.C., helped draft these declarations which Morales inserted into the Bolivian constitution. It’s derived from the 2007 United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that“provides a shared framework for improving temporary situations where two opposed interests collide, that is, the rights of indigenous peoples and State politics.”There are 148 countries who ratified this declaration in 2016, but the United States, Canada, Colombia, and Brazil are not among them. They have issues with ideas of “free determination, consultation, and consent, collective rights, and natural resources, land, and territories.” Which is why the United States may have had issues with Morales.Seeing Bolivia’s lithium stores were the next natural resource to be exploited by the United States, Morales turned his attention to developing lithium according to his ‘Living Well’ constitutional articles. But some Indigenous separatists, and Indigenous people most impacted by lithium extraction, became critical of Evo Morales and his eagerness to capitalize on this economic opportunity.The first attempts at extraction were privatized, but seeking to avoid the ‘resource curse’, Morales formed the state-owned YLB, Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos, for the sole purpose of lithium development. However, seeing Venezuela’s failure to effectively drill oil without outside investment or expertise, he decided to ease his stance on sole state-ownership and sought public-private partnerships. In 2014 and 2017 he invited a French and a Chinese company to build battery plants. In 2018, he signed on a German company, ACI Systems. And in 2019, the Chinese Xinjiang TBEA Group became a strategic partner to explore new extraction opportunities.In October of that same year, 2019, came the national elections and with it another Morales victory. But he was accused of election fraud. (It’s still disputed, but findings fall along political, ethnic, and cultural lines) Around election time protests erupted in the city where the German plant was built. Locals claimed to unhappy with the ACI deal. In November, Morales cancelled it. A week later the military ousted Morales in what is widely believed to be a far-right coup not unlike the one that spurred Morales to political action in the 80s. Morales escaped in exile to Mexico and then Argentina. He also claims his life had been threatened by U.S. CIA operatives.Predictably, the interim government was led by an opposition senator named Jeanine Áñez. The Catholic pink bible carrying former news anchor not only put lithium projects on hold, but criminal liability for police brutality against protesters enraged by the coup. She also cut off ties to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba and became cozy with the United States. A year later, October 2020, elections were held again and Morales’s former Minister of Economy, MAS candidate Luis Arce, won in a landslide.Arce is viewed as a pragmatist but also an adherent the principles Morales instilled in the constitution. Including upholding his 2006 implementation of the Productive Community Social Economic Model which distributes economic surpluses to all Bolivian people so they may ‘live well’.Arce said in a recent interview, “Parallel to the economic growth achieved, we managed to reduce moderate poverty from 60.6 percent in 2005 to 37.2 percent in 2019; extreme poverty from 38.2 percent to 12.9 percent and inequality," And just this week Bolivia micro-mobility startup, Quantum, said they hope Arce’s plans to build Bolivian batteries plays out soon, they want to put them in their tiny electric urban micro-cars and motorcycles. They operate out of Cochabamba where Morales traded coca for corn with his dad in public markets decades ago. Bolivian elections come in just three years but even Arce’s allies don’t believe their facilities can bring Bolivian batteries to market before 2030.In the meantime, outside investors continue to court Bolivia, including the United States. But the U.S. hasn’t had an ambassador in Bolivia since Morales kicked Rob Goldberg out in 2008 on counts of espionage. And I’m sure American companies won’t want to legally adhere to the ‘Living Well’ laws of the Bolivian constitution; just as the American government doesn’t want to ratify the UN’s versions into international law. It may be hard for the U.S. to ‘Friend-shore’ Bolivia. Especially when their shore was taken by Chile. Meanwhile environmentalists worry the state’s ambition to curb poverty through extractive mining will continue to harm the environment.Massive amounts of water are needed to lure lithium from their salty beds. Mining operations can use as much water in one day that a single family would use in twenty-two years. Alpine runoff is the only source of water in the ‘Lithium Triangle’ and La Niña can bring extended periods of drought. Furthermore, this area is home to three of the world’s six species of flamingos. Both plants and animals in this rich avifauna area are sensitive to ecological extremes risking further depletion of biodiversity.Little attention is given to the environmental impacts of lithium mining. The largest number of scholarly research on the subject overwhelming comes from the three countries who seek to exploit and consume it the most for the worldwide lithium-ion battery market: The United States, China, and Germany.But if Arce keeps to the laws of his own constitution, as ensconced by his friend and colleague Evo Morales, he must balance “precautionary action”, “guarantees to restore Mother Earth”, “guarantees to regenerate Mother Earth”, and respect “water for life” with “economic, social, cultural and political development” so that “all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized.”  There’s a mind twisting saying associated with ‘Living Well’ that reminds me of that plaque in my grandma’s kitchen. It says, “that which already is, is that which will be, without yet being what it already is.” Today, that which already is, is the tomorrow, that which will be, that you worried about yesterday, yet being what it already is. We may worry what tomorrow brings on the horizon of life, but this much is for sure: it depends on the recognition, and lawful ratification, of Mother Earth as the source of life, nourishment, and learning because it provides everything we need to live well.Podcast Music:1.      Loca de Remate: Ronny Lovy.2.      Queremos Saya: Los Kjarkas.3.      Huellas de Mi Llamita - Grupo Aymara.4.      Tarpuricusum Sarata - Captain Planet Remix: Luzmila Carpio, Captain Planet. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

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Produced by Internet Bolivia.org. In 2018, thousands of Bolivians found themselves in databases identified as members of political parties they had never registered for- in the midst of political tension, sensitivity and polarization. These events forced the conversation around data protections and the need for better data governance around the information people share (and overshare) online and also offline. Experiences like this have catalyzed interest in these topics and helped Internet Bolivia.Org push for a more inclusive discussion around privacy and the need for a comprehensive data protection law. This means that advocacy efforts around data protection and privacy are not only taking place in the traditional circles of power in the capital, but also through a more grassroots and local “bottom up” approach. This strategy takes advantage of Bolivia's unique decentralized system, in which decentralized and autonomous territorial entities- from the departmental, regional, municipal and indigenous- can make their own rules and in some cases, even have their own justice systems. In this way, activists can work at these levels to generate policy proposals and norms around data protection, access and privacy that could potentially build interest and “trickle up” to the national level.

Paul Zinnard es un maestro de escribir canciones bonitas. Su propuesta tiene espíritu de cantautor con cuerpo de banda de rock. Nos presenta su nuevo álbum, ‘Trance’. Originario de Palma y residente en Madrid, Zinnard se dio a conocer discográficamente en 1998 con su primera banda, The Bolivians, con los que grabó dos discos. En el año 2001 fundó The Pauls, con los que grabaría cinco álbumes, entre los que se encuentra el aclamado 'Miss Tokyo Meets Her Lover’. En el año 2010 comienza su andadura en solitario con ‘Songs of Hatred and Remorse’, un intento de reinventarse a sí mismo bajo el seudónimo de Paul Zinnard y alejarse de la parafernalia que conlleva formar parte de una banda Escuchar audio

The Infrastructure Bill that Couldn't Build a ThingAs the Democrats hurdle towards pushing through a $1.2 trillion dollar "infrastructure" bill, coupled with a $3.5 trillion dollar "human infrastructure" bill, after already spending $1.9 trillion on a covid relief bill earlier this year... We have to take a step back and look at the big picture.https://tv.gab.com/media/611a1381e0ee3bad542b1fd2?viewKey=321ae3f7-b742-4807-b864-afaca9e09136&r=1080pIf Democrats have their way, we're going to spend $6.6 trillion dollars this year. As a reference point, in 2020 the U.S. collected about half that amount in taxes. So where does the rest of the money come from?Our national debt currently sits at $28.6 TRILLION dollars. When numbers get so high, they become arbitrary. So let's give that some perspective: The national debt is more than $220,000 per householdIn 2020, the U.S. GDP was $20.93 trillion - 2/3 of our national debtThe following is from Stephen Moore, a former Trump economic advisor:"This is a scary time for our country. Democrats are drunk with power. They have adopted a new dingbat economic theory they call Modern Monetary Theory, which predicts that the government can borrow from now until kingdom come at ever-larger amounts and nothing bad will happen because we are the world reserve currency and foreigners are willing to lend us money at low-interest rates.Except history is replete with stories of great empires collapsing because of runaway debt and spending. The Modern Monetary Theory principles have been test-driven in more recent times by the Argentines, Venezuelans, Puerto Ricans, Bolivians, Zimbabweans and Greeks. There was no pot of gold at the end of that rainbow — just poverty, despair and bankruptcy."I don't write all of this to scare you. Instead, I want to activate you. There's a showdown coming and I want to make sure you understand what we're fighting for.Republicans plan to use the Debt Ceiling as a tool to stop the spending spree. In order for us to take on more debt (and pass their $3.5 trillion bill), the Debt Ceiling cap has to be raised. Democrats can't do that without Republicans voting for it in the Senate. So the GOP looks like they're going to hold out to kill the $3.5 trillion dollar bill.Democrats and the media are going to tell you it's an assault on our Democracy. Don't listen to them. The stakes are too high.GOP CAN KNEECAP BIDEN'S AGENDA......but instead, they're enabling him.The GOP is on the verge of handing Joe Biden a major win by passing the $1.2 trillion "bipartisan" infrastructure bill, right as his political capital is spiraling down the toilet. If they had the spine, there is a major tool they can use to their advantage: the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is the amount of money the United States is allowed to borrow. Under the constitution, only Congress can authorize that the debt ceiling be raised. Our debt is currently over $28 trillion dollars.How the GOP can use the debt ceiling: If Democrats want to add more to the debt via the various spending bills they're proposing, Congress would need to raise the debt ceiling. They literally cannot pass more bills that add to the debt, unless the ceiling is raised. And they need 60 votes in the Senate to do that. So 10 GOP Senators would need to be on board. They should use this to their advantage.Former President Trump weighed in over the weekend saying: “Joe Biden's infrastructure bill is a disgrace. If Mitch McConnell was smart, which we've seen no evidence of, he would use the debt ceiling card to negotiate a good infrastructure package.”Not just politics: It's not just about preventing a political win for Biden. From left-wing economist, Larry Summers to Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan, they are warning about growing inflation risks. In June [we don't have July data yet], inflation rose by the highest percentage in 30 years. Falling off the edge: This $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, along with the $3.5 trillion liberal wish-list bill the Democrats plan to pass next [without a single GOP vote], will push us over the inflation cliff. I cannot understand why 18 GOP Senators want to be complicit in this. If they pass a bill and inflation takes off, they are on the hook just as much as the Democrats. What's in the bill: To start, it's 2,700 pages long. Here's some of what's in itA plan to add a new tax on drivers by the mileIt would force all new cars to have alcohol monitors installedOnly 15% of the bill, around $175 billion, goes to actual roads, ports, bridges, and even digital infrastructure.Over $100 billion goes to bailing out the highway trust fund.The rest goes to things like subsidies for electric vehicles. Electric vehicle production benefits countries like China, which make the parts that go into these cars.Adding to the debt: The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office just put out an estimate that the bill would add $256 to the national debt. Our country is already $28 trillion dollars in debt. Over the past 18 months, we've continued to add to that debt through massive, trillion-dollar covid-spending bills. We literally cannot afford to keep spending money on left-wing wish-list items.SENATE GOP HANDED BIDEN A BIG WIN, AND SOLD YOU OUT19 Republican Senators voted with all 50 Democrats to pass a $1.2 trillion-dollar slush fund disguised as an 'infrastructure' bill. The bill now moves on to the Democrat-controlled House, where the only chance that it can be derailed is if progressives like AOC make extreme amendments that the 19 Senate cowards won't sign off on. Here's the list of GOP Senators who voted for this bill. If they're your Senator, make sure you question their reasons.Roy Blunt (Mo)Richard Burr (N.C.)Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.)Bill Cassidy (La)Susan Collins (Maine)Kevin Cramer (N.D.)Mike Crapo (Idaho)Deb Fischer (Neb.)Lindsey Graham (S.C.)Chuck Grassley (Iowa)John Hoeven (N.D.)Mitch McConnell (Ky) Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)Rob Portman (Ohio)James E. Risch (Idaho)Mitt Romney (Utah)Dan Sullivan (Alaska)Thom Tillis (N.C.)Roger F. Wicker (Miss.)Left-wing news outlet Axios is calling it "a massive win for President Biden" as the Senate is headed towards passing a $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill before the weekend. I have one question: Why? Why are Mitch McConnell and the GOP playing ball on this massive spending bill, where less than 15% of the spending goes to ACTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE?Senator Ted Cruz summed up the bill: “This bill is bloated with spending we cannot afford... It is nothing more than a down payment for a liberal wish list.”Call to action: Here's what you can do. Call or e-mail your senator. Tell them you why are they wasting YOUR tax dollars on an "infrastructure" bill that only spends 15% on infrastructure.If Anything Let's focus on two Senators in particular and blow up their phone lines and e-mail inboxes.Remind them that we are fiscal conservatives.Remind them that they are giving a lifeline to a President in free-fall.Remind them that they are about to be complicit in rapidly increasing inflation.Ask them why there is no border wall funding in their "bipartisan" infrastructure bill?Call on them to use the debt ceiling as a tool to stand up for the American people and stop Democrats from dangerously spending our money [and adding to our debt].Mitch McConnell: ☎️ (202) 224-2541

La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52 (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the urban history of one of Latin America's most indigenous large cities in the first half of the twentieth century. Tracing the expansion of the “extramuro,” indigenous neighborhoods beyond the center of the city in these decades, Sierra brings to life the activists who transformed the city leading up to Bolivia's National Revolution in 1952. Sierra begins by highlighting the racialized debates about space, modernization, and popular politics among elites that dominated Bolivia's 1925 centenary celebrations and projects for urban development. Many elites hoped to relegate visible signs of indigeneity outside an imaginary line that divided the respectable, wealthy urban core from the mixed indigenous spaces of the urban periphery. However, as Sierra demonstrates, indigenous Bolivians were crucial to the functioning of urban life from the very heart of the old Spanish city to its rapidly expanding markets and outskirts. Therefore, lower class urbanites, indigenous and not, were able to insist upon an alternative vision of the city built upon neighborhood organizations, unions, and popular use of space long before the revolutionary days of urban street battles in April 1952.  This book will be of interest to urban historians and Latin American historians alike. Its careful explorations of gender, race, class and the mechanisms that build urban belonging will make this book essential reading for anyone interested in social movements and popular politics. Finally, by tracing the understudied history of neighborhood associations in the early twentieth century, La Paz's Colonial Specters provides an essential background for scholars seeking to understand the roots of contemporary neighborhood organizations that continue to dominate Bolivia's popular politics to this day. Luis Sierra is Associate Professor of History at Thomas More University. Elena McGrath is Assistant Professor of History at Union College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52 (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the urban history of one of Latin America's most indigenous large cities in the first half of the twentieth century. Tracing the expansion of the “extramuro,” indigenous neighborhoods beyond the center of the city in these decades, Sierra brings to life the activists who transformed the city leading up to Bolivia's National Revolution in 1952. Sierra begins by highlighting the racialized debates about space, modernization, and popular politics among elites that dominated Bolivia's 1925 centenary celebrations and projects for urban development. Many elites hoped to relegate visible signs of indigeneity outside an imaginary line that divided the respectable, wealthy urban core from the mixed indigenous spaces of the urban periphery. However, as Sierra demonstrates, indigenous Bolivians were crucial to the functioning of urban life from the very heart of the old Spanish city to its rapidly expanding markets and outskirts. Therefore, lower class urbanites, indigenous and not, were able to insist upon an alternative vision of the city built upon neighborhood organizations, unions, and popular use of space long before the revolutionary days of urban street battles in April 1952.  This book will be of interest to urban historians and Latin American historians alike. Its careful explorations of gender, race, class and the mechanisms that build urban belonging will make this book essential reading for anyone interested in social movements and popular politics. Finally, by tracing the understudied history of neighborhood associations in the early twentieth century, La Paz's Colonial Specters provides an essential background for scholars seeking to understand the roots of contemporary neighborhood organizations that continue to dominate Bolivia's popular politics to this day. Luis Sierra is Associate Professor of History at Thomas More University. Elena McGrath is Assistant Professor of History at Union College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52 (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the urban history of one of Latin America's most indigenous large cities in the first half of the twentieth century. Tracing the expansion of the “extramuro,” indigenous neighborhoods beyond the center of the city in these decades, Sierra brings to life the activists who transformed the city leading up to Bolivia's National Revolution in 1952. Sierra begins by highlighting the racialized debates about space, modernization, and popular politics among elites that dominated Bolivia's 1925 centenary celebrations and projects for urban development. Many elites hoped to relegate visible signs of indigeneity outside an imaginary line that divided the respectable, wealthy urban core from the mixed indigenous spaces of the urban periphery. However, as Sierra demonstrates, indigenous Bolivians were crucial to the functioning of urban life from the very heart of the old Spanish city to its rapidly expanding markets and outskirts. Therefore, lower class urbanites, indigenous and not, were able to insist upon an alternative vision of the city built upon neighborhood organizations, unions, and popular use of space long before the revolutionary days of urban street battles in April 1952.  This book will be of interest to urban historians and Latin American historians alike. Its careful explorations of gender, race, class and the mechanisms that build urban belonging will make this book essential reading for anyone interested in social movements and popular politics. Finally, by tracing the understudied history of neighborhood associations in the early twentieth century, La Paz's Colonial Specters provides an essential background for scholars seeking to understand the roots of contemporary neighborhood organizations that continue to dominate Bolivia's popular politics to this day. Luis Sierra is Associate Professor of History at Thomas More University. Elena McGrath is Assistant Professor of History at Union College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52 (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the urban history of one of Latin America's most indigenous large cities in the first half of the twentieth century. Tracing the expansion of the “extramuro,” indigenous neighborhoods beyond the center of the city in these decades, Sierra brings to life the activists who transformed the city leading up to Bolivia's National Revolution in 1952. Sierra begins by highlighting the racialized debates about space, modernization, and popular politics among elites that dominated Bolivia's 1925 centenary celebrations and projects for urban development. Many elites hoped to relegate visible signs of indigeneity outside an imaginary line that divided the respectable, wealthy urban core from the mixed indigenous spaces of the urban periphery. However, as Sierra demonstrates, indigenous Bolivians were crucial to the functioning of urban life from the very heart of the old Spanish city to its rapidly expanding markets and outskirts. Therefore, lower class urbanites, indigenous and not, were able to insist upon an alternative vision of the city built upon neighborhood organizations, unions, and popular use of space long before the revolutionary days of urban street battles in April 1952.  This book will be of interest to urban historians and Latin American historians alike. Its careful explorations of gender, race, class and the mechanisms that build urban belonging will make this book essential reading for anyone interested in social movements and popular politics. Finally, by tracing the understudied history of neighborhood associations in the early twentieth century, La Paz's Colonial Specters provides an essential background for scholars seeking to understand the roots of contemporary neighborhood organizations that continue to dominate Bolivia's popular politics to this day. Luis Sierra is Associate Professor of History at Thomas More University. Elena McGrath is Assistant Professor of History at Union College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latin-american-studies

La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52 (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the urban history of one of Latin America's most indigenous large cities in the first half of the twentieth century. Tracing the expansion of the “extramuro,” indigenous neighborhoods beyond the center of the city in these decades, Sierra brings to life the activists who transformed the city leading up to Bolivia's National Revolution in 1952. Sierra begins by highlighting the racialized debates about space, modernization, and popular politics among elites that dominated Bolivia's 1925 centenary celebrations and projects for urban development. Many elites hoped to relegate visible signs of indigeneity outside an imaginary line that divided the respectable, wealthy urban core from the mixed indigenous spaces of the urban periphery. However, as Sierra demonstrates, indigenous Bolivians were crucial to the functioning of urban life from the very heart of the old Spanish city to its rapidly expanding markets and outskirts. Therefore, lower class urbanites, indigenous and not, were able to insist upon an alternative vision of the city built upon neighborhood organizations, unions, and popular use of space long before the revolutionary days of urban street battles in April 1952.  This book will be of interest to urban historians and Latin American historians alike. Its careful explorations of gender, race, class and the mechanisms that build urban belonging will make this book essential reading for anyone interested in social movements and popular politics. Finally, by tracing the understudied history of neighborhood associations in the early twentieth century, La Paz's Colonial Specters provides an essential background for scholars seeking to understand the roots of contemporary neighborhood organizations that continue to dominate Bolivia's popular politics to this day. Luis Sierra is Associate Professor of History at Thomas More University. Elena McGrath is Assistant Professor of History at Union College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52 (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the urban history of one of Latin America's most indigenous large cities in the first half of the twentieth century. Tracing the expansion of the “extramuro,” indigenous neighborhoods beyond the center of the city in these decades, Sierra brings to life the activists who transformed the city leading up to Bolivia's National Revolution in 1952. Sierra begins by highlighting the racialized debates about space, modernization, and popular politics among elites that dominated Bolivia's 1925 centenary celebrations and projects for urban development. Many elites hoped to relegate visible signs of indigeneity outside an imaginary line that divided the respectable, wealthy urban core from the mixed indigenous spaces of the urban periphery. However, as Sierra demonstrates, indigenous Bolivians were crucial to the functioning of urban life from the very heart of the old Spanish city to its rapidly expanding markets and outskirts. Therefore, lower class urbanites, indigenous and not, were able to insist upon an alternative vision of the city built upon neighborhood organizations, unions, and popular use of space long before the revolutionary days of urban street battles in April 1952.  This book will be of interest to urban historians and Latin American historians alike. Its careful explorations of gender, race, class and the mechanisms that build urban belonging will make this book essential reading for anyone interested in social movements and popular politics. Finally, by tracing the understudied history of neighborhood associations in the early twentieth century, La Paz's Colonial Specters provides an essential background for scholars seeking to understand the roots of contemporary neighborhood organizations that continue to dominate Bolivia's popular politics to this day. Luis Sierra is Associate Professor of History at Thomas More University. Elena McGrath is Assistant Professor of History at Union College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/native-american-studies

All eyes on Latin America: What's burning in what imperialists have long called "America's backyard"? Kawsachun News co-founder Camila Escalante assesses the state of the Latin American left in 2021. What's the deal with Peru's recent elections? How are things for ordinary Bolivians after one year of a US-backed coup regime? Is the US still trying to overthrow Venezuela's democracy in order to install Western puppet Juan Guaidó? What can socialists in the Global North learn from the success of left-wing movements across Latin America? Plus, is there really any difference between Trump and Biden's hawkish policies in the region? Get more of Camila @PrensaCamila and @KawsachunNews! The Left Bitches are Anissa Naouai, Erica Marable, Amanda Getty, and Ryan Wentz. Produced by Gregory Haddock with music by Jonathan Hurley. Visit patreon.com/leftbitches for same-day release, bonus episodes, and more.

La situación tan especial por la que estamos atravesando desde hace más de un año, está provocando serios problemas de ansiedad y otros trastornos psicológicos en amplias capas de la población de nuestro país. Algunas estimaciones hablan de un 25 % de la población afectada por diferentes trastornos psicológicos motivados por la pandemia y las restricciones que estamos experimentando. Esa cifra se eleva hasta el 40% en el caso de los profesionales sanitarios. Hay una gran preocupación entre los especialistas por ver cómo va a afectar todo este panorama a cientos de miles de personas. Con la idea de ayudar a todo el mundo que quiera, se ha celebrado recientemente el festival on-line "ALARMA-ANSIEDAD". Más de 15.000 personas han participado en el festival y muchas de las ponencias se pueden volver a ver y escuchar a través de la red. Han participado más de 70 ponentes de diferentes campos y especialidades y nosotros hemos hablado con Itxi Ávila, experta en Inteligencia Emocional y creadora del Festival y con Catalina Hoffman, especialista en estimulación cognitiva y experta en entrenamiento mental. PAUL ZINNARD es un excelente compositor y cantante, nacido en Palma de Mallorca y afincado en Madrid desde hace muchos años. Formó las bandas "THE BOLIVIANS" y "THE PAULS" y en el año 2010 inició su carrera en solitario bajo el nombre de "PAUL ZINNARD". Ahora nos presenta su nuevo trabajo grande: "TRANCE", es su sexto disco y está cargado de excelentes composiciones que reflejan un mundo muy personal de emociones y sentimientos. Con una excelente producción, el disco se ha grabado en plena pandemia en Madrid y han participado grandísimos músicos, como Cristian Chiloé, a la batería y coros; Patricia de Velasco a la guitarra eléctrica y coros y Willie B Planas a los teclados. Hablamos con Paul, de este excelente nuevo trabajo y de su brillante trayectoria. Escuchar audio

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Gustavo Vargas, a core organizer with Colectivo Kawsay and a member of the Bolivian community in the DC area, to discuss their recent protest outside the Lincoln Memorial calling for an end to US interference in efforts to hold the the authors of the November 2019 coup d'etat responsible, the US government's long history of giving refuge to loyal Latin American dictators and war criminals, and the significance of international solidarity in the struggle.

Peace advocates launch Afghan Day of Action; Bolivians demand the US not meddle in massacre justice; List shows which cops use face recognition

This week we bring you an interview with Dr Susan Ellison from Wellesley College. In this interview, Familiar Stranger Alex asks about her experiences working in the city of El Alto and the neighbouring town of La Paz. Alex and Susan discuss Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and how it exists as a second space for conflict resolution for Bolivians and their families. They also discuss how foreign aid adds a layer of complexities to the frameworks already present in Bolivia and potential recommendations for moving forward. Head to our website for a full list of links and citations mentioned! Music by Pete Dabro: dabro1.bandcamp.com Shownotes by Matthew Phung Podcast edited by Alex D'Aloia and Matthew Phung

On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Jamarl Thomas and Shane Stranahan discuss the upcoming subnational elections in Bolivia, Biden's ability as an effective leader, rising fear of domestic terrorism, ongoing conflict in Ethiopia and much more. Guests:Camila Escalante – TV News Producer and presenter at teleSUR| Lower Bolivian Elections KJ Noh – Journalist and Analyst| Congress Contra January 6th and March 4th Garland Nixon – Sputnik Political Anaylst and co-host of The Critical Hour and Critical Hour Extended | Congress Hearings on January 6th Peter Coffin – Podcaster and Author| Manufactured Discontent Tedrose Fikre – Co-founder and Former editor of GhionJournal.com| Tigray On 7 March 2021, around 7.3 million Bolivians will participate in what the UN hopes to be Peaceful Subnational Elections. The show is joined by Camila Escalante to discuss the local governance of Bolivia after the coup against Evo Morales. In Myanmar, violence against protestors escalate as more charges are brought against Aung San Suu Kyi who has been in custody since the 1 February coup. KJ Noh speaks more about what is to come next and the significance behind the challenges currently facing the Burmese country. Congress decided to suspend sessions on March 4th following intelligence reports that an extremist militia group backed by conspiracy group QAnon would target the Capitol. Sputnik Analyst Garland Nixon questions President Biden's ability to effectively lead the country during these tense times of rising fear in domestic terrorism. Peter Coffin continues the conversation by speaking on the role of the internet in fueling these threats and the government response to it. Fighting continues in Tigray despite the government declaring victory over the Tigray People's Liberation Front. Tedrose Fikre gives details on the current conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

I feel like it is ground-hog day. The American left keeps falling fo the same old regime change propaganda over and over! Today, Ben Norton from the Grayzone joins us to talk about how not to be a regime-change dupeAll of these refer to regime-change propaganda used by official US SourcesShow Notes 1:00 - What is the first sign of a regime-change effort by the US?4:45 - Why do some protests get covered and not others? 7:30- TV Shows, Movies and entertainment is also propaganda8:00 - How Esha fell victim to propaganda too!14:29 - Anti-DPRK propaganda apparatus “Economics Departments are barren wastelands of Koch Bros propaganda” - Benjamin Norton16:00 - How US Media is like human centipede! 17:00 - Ortega’s Alleged Death18:00 - Nat-Sec propaganda in Academia20:00 - Dissidents are not value neutral 21:00 - Liberalism is a right-wing ideology 23:00 - Racism an ideology that is spawned from imperialism25:00 - Democrats are more effective imperialists26:00 - Internal politics within Nicaragua 33:00 - Blue-Brown Alliance: Liberal Fascist alliance41:00 - Socialist International Expose 43:00 - Fascist Founding Member of NATOWalter Hallstein with Adolf Hitler 45:00 - “Authoritarianism” is a propaganda term55:00 - Being an active anti-imperialist!58:00 - Fascism in Asia looks different than Europe59:00 - “Listen to Bolivians”, why Ben disagrees with Standpoint epistemology.1:00:00 - Liberal Fascism 1:11:00 - Freedom for the Bourgeoise 1:13:00 - We both recommend Lenin.You can find Ben Norton at the Grayzone and his podcast Moderate Rebels Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Caleb Maupin, journalist and political analyst, joins us with his wit and wisdom for a weekly wrap-up on a host of subjects. We discuss the return of Morales to Bolivia and how he led a social and political movement to overcome a US-led coup. Also, Maupin explains whether he thinks that a Biden administration will be receptive to the olive branch that was recently put forward by the Iranian foreign policy team as they suggest that the US return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. Dr. Jack Rasmus, professor in the Economics and Politics departments at St. Mary's College of California, joins us to explain an extraordinary incident on Thursday in which the US Federal Reserve openly criticized Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's move to end a number of emergency lending programs. This exceptional public rebuke reflects an ideological divide among parts of the government on what methods are most suitable to addressing the economic problems brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, we discuss the possibility of a December government shutdown and the slowing of job growth as coronavirus cases surge across much of the US.KJ Noh, peace activist, writer and teacher, returns to The Critical Hour to talk about reports in both Chinese and Russian media that the possibility of a military alliance between the two world powers may be on the table. Noh also gives his thoughts on whether a Biden administration would continue US President Donald Trump's policies toward China's technology business sector and what actions Trump is planning between now and the potential end of his term.Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist; and Ajamu Baraka, former US vice-presidential candidate for the Green Party, come together to discuss the makeup of presumed US President-elect Joe Biden's potential Cabinet. Does the presence of war profiteers from pro-war think tanks indicate a move towards an aggressive, confrontational foreign policy? Also, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ruffled the feathers of Palestinian rights activists worldwide on Thursday as he visited an Israeli settlement in the West Bank that is deemed illegal under international law.Dr. Gerald Horne, Professor of history at the University of Houston, author, historian and researcher, teams up with Gary Flowers, public policy analyst and radio talk show host, to discuss whether the Trump team's various legal machinations will be successful in their attempt to overturn the apparent results of the recent presidential election. Also, how will the presence of former US President Barack Obama's foreign policy team members affect the direction of a potential Biden administration?

As the U.S. watches for the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, we turn to a surprising comparison. Last year a contested presidential election led to President Evo Morales leaving Bolivia--and pitched Bolivians into a state of conflict and uncertainty. We tell the story of what Bolivians lived through a year ago, and why it might help us understand what’s happening right now in the U.S. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Speaking of elections, let's talk about Bolivia. On October 18th, voters handed Luis Arce and the Movement for Socialism a historic majority. In doing so, they defeated a right-wing government that had held power since a coup last year forced President Evo Morales out of the country. Now, Evo's party is back, and they have a bigger mandate than ever. How did this victory come about, especially amidst massacres, mass arrests and vigilante violence against activists and lawmakers alike? Bolivian-based human rights lawyer Thomas Becker joins the show to tell the story.

Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola talk with Ollie Vargas, a reporter for Radio Kawsachun Coca who was in Bolivia to report on the election. On October 18, Luis Arce of the Movement Toward Socialism Party won 55 percent of the vote against six candidates, avoided a runoff, and claimed victory over leaders of a coup that was backed by the United States. This means Bolivians can begin to reclaim their country from right-wing extremists. They can end the violence that has run rampant against activists opposed to the regime, and eventually President Evo Morales will be able to return to the country. In our interview, Ollie describes how the US-backed regime tried to shut down his outlet in Bolivia. He offers his reaction the election outcome and what lies ahead for Bolivians. Ollie also addresses the neoliberal constraints that could still be imposed via an IMF loan that the coup government took out in April. He recounts how state projects aimed at ensuring Bolivia controlled its own resources (e.g. lithium) were suspended and contracts dissolved, which helped create conditions for a recession. It was uncertain whether the regime would allow an election to take place, since they were going to lose. As Ollie makes clear, only by mobilizing the people were Bolivians able to take back their country.

The OAS issued a statement in 2019 questioning the validity of the Bolivian elections, which then snowballed into a full-blown fascist coup. Thousands of Bolivians have died. Today, we have David Rosnick from the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) telling us about the “intellectual collaborators” who gave a pseudo-intellectual cover for the coup. Follow David on Twitter: @ViscidKonrad Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I discuss Bolivia's election and the challenges faced by newly elected president Luis Arce in governing all Bolivians in a country deeply polarized along political, economic, and racial lines.

In today’s day and age, “healthy” eating is all the rage—the extensive benefits of “superfoods” like quinoa and açai berries are touted by many experts. However, eating habits are formed in early childhood, and it can be hard to transform them at later stages in life. To help set healthy food habits in children in India from an early stage, Meghana and Shauravi started Slurrp Farm in 2016. On a mission to do for millets what the Bolivians and Brazilians did for quinoa, Slurrp has quickly spread to 400 stores across 7 cities in India, and online in the UK, UAE, and Singapore!Tune in to hear how they consistently deliver recipes that satisfy both, the flavor and health cravings of children and adults with their innovative recipes!

In presidential and parliamentary elections last weekend, Bolivians voted overwhelmingly for Luis Arce, the leader of exiled former president Evo Morales’s socialist party. Andrew Mueller looks at what that means for Bolivia – and for Morales. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Sunday, October 18, 2020, Bolivians went to the polls for the first time since last year’s controversial election and subsequent deposing of longtime president Evo Morales. Evo and many members of the government and political party MAS, the Movement towards Socialism, fled into exile as an interim government seized the reigns of power and used the military and security services to violently put down resistance. The results from Sunday proved a decisive victory for MAS and its candidate for president, former economy minister Luis Arce. Was the result a referendum on the fourteen years of MAS rule? Was it a referendum on the legitimacy of the interim government? Was does the result mean for Bolivia and the region? To explore these questions and more, Dustin and I spoke with Dr. Thomas C. Field Jr, an associate professor of Global Security and Intelligence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr. Field is the author of From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era and most recently a co-editor of Latin America and the Global Cold War.

On Sunday, October 18, 2020, Bolivians went to the polls for the first time since last year's controversial election and subsequent deposing of longtime president Evo Morales. Evo and many members of the government and political party MAS, the Movement towards Socialism, fled into exile as an interim government seized the reigns of power and used the military and security services to violently put down resistance. The results from Sunday proved a decisive victory for MAS and its candidate for president, former economy minister Luis Arce. Was the result a referendum on the fourteen years of MAS rule? Was it a referendum on the legitimacy of the interim government? Was does the result mean for Bolivia and the region? To explore these questions and more, Dustin and I spoke with Dr. Thomas C. Field Jr, an associate professor of Global Security and Intelligence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr. Field is the author of From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era and most recently a co-editor of Latin America and the Global Cold War.

Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic & Policy Research. Nearly one year later, Bolivians vote to repudiate coup and reclaim democracy.

Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: A new report shows that the New York Post’s explosive Hunter Biden story was so shaky multiple reporters inside the tabloid refused to have their bylines put on it -- but editors there pushed it ahead anyway. Meanwhile, Bolivia heads to the polls for the first time since election dysfunction and a right-wing coup ousted socialist president Evo Morales last year. His party stands a chance of retaking the government, but the election could once again get messy. And lastly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sets a 48 hour deadline for stimulus talks with the President, challenging the White House to get an acceptable bill on the table before Tuesday. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: Generally, if a reporter thinks a story is too sketchy to put their byline on it, it’s probably to sketchy to print. But not at the New York Post! According to a new report by the New York Times, the Post rammed through the controversial and quite possibly bogus story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and corruption implications despite the protests of multiple reporters who worked on it. The Times reports that the story came basically hand-fed from Rudy Giuliani, who said he deliberately gave it to the Post because quote “either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out.” endquote. Crazy how that worked out for him! Sure enough, the Post ran the story. Bruce Golding, the original reporter who wrote most of the story, took a stand against top editors and refused to put his byline on the piece, as he had serious doubts about its credibility. The story, in short, used alleged emails on a laptop hard drive allegedly owned by Hunter Biden to show that Joe Biden, his father, had allegedly directed U.S. foreign policy to benefit his son’s business interests while Vice President. Notice how many times I just said “allegedly.” That’s because the story as a whole was a REAL stretch. With Golding washing his hands of the matter, Post editors then slapped a new byline on it: Emma-Jo Morris, a politics editor freshly at the post by way of Sean Hannity’s Fox News Show, whose Instagram feed includes several pictures of her with Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Crazy how that one worked out too! The Post also put another reporter’s byline on the story without even telling her it was going to be on there. Clearly, things over at New York’s most venerable source of tawdry, right-wing garbage are proceeding, well, actually pretty normally for them. We should expect this by now! Bolivia Heads to the Polls Sunday was election day in Bolivia, and though it may take days for election results to come in, the results could change the country’s history or tear it apart all over again. If you remember, last year a right wing coup ousted Bolivia’s socialist president Evo Morales. Morales and his party won nationwide elections in 2019, which quickly devolved after right wing parties weaponized accusations of election fraud to spark protests and force an hard-right usurper, Jeanine Áñez, into power. Áñez, who once declared the indigenous people Morales hails from quote “satanic,” is not running in the current election as she didn’t wish to split the conservative vote. Morales was a flawed avatar for the country’s push for equality, especially in his fourth, legally contested run for office, but he unquestionably improved living conditions for millions of Bolivians under his control. In Sunday’s election, Morales’s Movement Towards Socialism party is represented by former finance minister Luis Arce, who has a slight edge in the polls over his main challenger, centrist journalist and former president Carlos Mesa. Voting is mandatory in Bolivia, and on Sunday, multiple publications reported long lines outside of polling stations. Both parties are expecting contested results and possibly protests or violence after the count is announced. Pelosi Sets Bailout Deadline After a chaotic week of stubbornness, Nancy Pelosi is giving the White House a 48 hour deadline to deliver her an acceptable stimulus bill if they want it passed before the election. Pelosi and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin have been in largely unproductive talks for months, and are still hung up over the meager offerings the White House is prepared to hand out. What Pelosi should do here is a nasty choice: if she caves to the White House’s demands, Mnuchin could slip through a bill that includes loose language about a nationwide testing program and a whole host of nasty corporate-friendly liability provisions. But if she doesn’t agree to anything, there’s almost no way that struggling American families will get a second $1200 stimulus check. Some progressives are pushing Pelosi to take the deal in the hope that some relief makes it to everyday Americans. But it’s worth noting that even if she and Mnuchin strike a deal, Senate Republicans under Mitch McConnell are even more opposed to new spending than the White House is. The thinking is that at least if Pelosi passes something, the blame goes to McConnell if Americans continue to suffer. Most analysis thinks that a compromise isn’t likely, which means Americans living on the edge have little chance of getting relief before the election. That’s bad for Trump, of course, who will face a worsening economic picture as voting day edges clearer, but it’s also, you know, bad for all the people who desperately need assistance, and no amount of political skirmishing will fix the wounds the people in power have already caused. AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer can’t really catch a break: During a Trump rally in her state on Saturday, the president again sparked his supporters to chant “Lock her up.” Whitmer, in an interview with NBC, justifiably said the President was inciting right wing terrorism, like the idiots who plotted to kidnap her just over a week ago. Pro-democracy, student-led protests continued in Thailand this weekend in defiance of a government ban on protesting, despite facing transit shutdowns, targeted arrests and police brutality. Thailand’s ruling party took power in a military coup in 2014. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who led one of the most successful responses to Coronavirus around the world, led her left-wing labor party to a massive, resounding victory on Saturday, corralling over 49 percent of the vote and crushing the center-right opposition party to establish a huge majority in the country’s Parliament. And finally, the Trump administration is reportedly planning a massive deregulatory push to gut federal agencies and environmental protections if they lose the election, tying up a future Biden administration in months if not years of work trying to put things back in order. Sounds like the kind of spite we should expect! That’s it for the Majority Report’s AM Quickie today. Stay tuned for the full show with Sam later this afternoon. OCT 19, 2020 - AM QUICKIE HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Jack Crosbie PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn

ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editor Ramiro Fúnez and Hypatia Ostojic discuss the 2020 snap election in Bolivia. The election is taking place almost a year after the 2019 U.S.-backed coup against democratically-elected President Evo Morales. Hypatia lives in Los Angeles and immigrated from Bolivia at the age of 11. She’s an activist, social worker and member of Ayni Allyu. Ayni Allyu is a group of Bolivians in the U.S. resisting the coup. Hypatia is also a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined from Bolivia by Sputnik News Analyst and By Any Means Necessary producer Wyatt Reed to give an on-the-ground update on the upcoming elections there, and to discuss the electoral prospects of the Movement To Socialism and what role the OAS may play in Sunday's elections.

In today's News: Bolivian Lutherans respond to COVID-19 The South American nation of Bolivia has reported more than 138,000 cases of covid-19 to date, with more than 8,300 deaths. There are currently nearly 29,000 active cases of the coronavirus in the country. Early in March 2020, the government moved to close borders and enact quarantine measures throughout the country. Church services were restricted in Bolivia early on. The evangelical Christian Lutheran Church of Bolivia (Iglesia Cristiana Evangélica Luterana de Bolivia – ICEL) is working to support its members during the crisis, even as the virus affects some of its own members. In response to the pandemic, the ICEL moved quickly to provide online devotional resources for members. The church’s pastors, vicars and missionaries, have provided daily devotional videos via the church’s Facebook page, in both the Spanish and quiche languages. The church has also led a national study of Luther’s Small Catechism, which has been well-received. The church has provided support for Bolivians in practical ways too, including through the distribution of basic necessities. The church continues to look for additional ways to support people. Senior apartments owner/manager investiigated Secretary of Housing And Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson said the department is investigating a complaint against the owner and manager of senior apartments in Oklahoma for violating The Fair Housing Act by removing Bibles and other religious literature from their common areas. Wilhoit Properties, which manages the apartments and assisted-living homes owned by Vintage Housing, was accused of sending an email to their 116 assisted living facilities asking the managers to remove bibles and Christian literature from their libraries located in the common areas that were shared by all residents, Sapulpa Times reported. Wilhoit properties, which manages more than 200 properties in 16 states, allegedly removed the Bibles and Christian faith-based books without any warning to residents, who pay rent to use the common areas, according to the times, which said the Christian material was removed after a resident complained about angels being used as décor in the common area. Officials won’t prosecute abortionists A small group of state prosecutors and attorneys general announced yesterday that they will refuse to prosecute abortionists for killing unborn babies if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and states criminalize abortion. ABC news reports 63 elected officials signed the joint statement, a project of the organization Fair and Just Prosecution, Including California Attorneys General Xavier Becerra, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison And Delaware Attorney General Kathleen Jennings. Ban on dismemberment abortion overturned A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals struck down a Texas law on Tuesday that would have banned the use of “dismemberment abortion” procedures common in the second trimester. Enacted in 2017 but never enforced due to legal battles, the law bans the dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion procedure, more commonly known as “dismemberment abortions,” because they tear a preborn baby apart in the womb. The judges voted 2-1 against the law. The ban “forces abortion providers to act contrary to their medical judgment and the best interest of their patient” by requiring them to instead use “dangerous” procedures that offer “no benefit to the woman, Judge James Dennis claimed in his majority opinion. Its “burdens substantially outweigh its benefits,” he claimed.

The dumpster fire known as the first presidential debate may still be burning in our minds but it is overshadowing a very important Congressional hearing held that same day, about white supremacists working as police officers. We speak to professor Gerald Horne and hear voices from the hearing. And the Bolivian diaspora returns to the scene of the crime: the Organization of American States, which spearheaded a military coup in 2019 that ousted president Evo Morales and installed a fascist regime. The popular movement of Bolivians wants fair elections, which they know they can win again.  Plus headlines: Donald Trump tests positive for coronavirus... House of Representatives passes smaller version of its coronavirus relief bill but it is unlikely to be approved by the Senate or White House... Another 1.5 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment... Disney, Allstate, United Airlines and Americans Airlines  announced plans recently to fire or furlough more than 60,000 workers... Prince George’s County, Md., will pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of William Green... Students and activists consider the presence of police officers in schools... New reports on corporate pollution... Culture and Media: Julian Assange, Kevin Young, Joseph Ross. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you! Links: Unredacted 2006 FBI Report on White Supremacists Infiltrating Police Departments

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by are joined by Ollie Vargas, writer and journalist with Radio Kawsachun Coca, to discuss the resignation of three Bolivian government ministers, the recent appointment of Branko Marinkovic to Economy Minister, and why Bolivians across the world are speaking out after being disenfranchised by the coup-borne regime.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dan Kovalik, a lawyer, professor, and author of “No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian Intervention' to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests," to talk about last night's debate between President Donald Trump and Senator Joe Biden, and why it's unsurprising a clear majority of Americans polled afterwards viewed the event in a negative light.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Jennifer, an organizer with OccupyPHA, and Kane, Camp JTD resident and organizer, to talk about the recent agreement between the city of Philadelphia and organizers there to give control of around 50 properties to a community land trust, and the long struggle by homeless activists and advocates which led the way for the historic deal.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Ollie Vargas, writer and journalist with Radio Kawsachun Coca, to discuss the resignation of three Bolivian government ministers, the recent appointment of Branko Marinkovic to Economy Minister, and why Bolivians across the world are speaking out after being disenfranchised by the coup-borne Bolivian regime.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Netfa Freeman, a policy analyst with the Institute for Policy Studies and a member of the coordinating committee of the Black Alliance for Peace, to discuss the presidential debate, President Trump's suggestion that the Proud Boys should "stand down and stand by," and the refusal of Kentucky Attorney General to indict the Louisville police who killed Breonna Taylor.

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Sen. Kamala Harris's first address as Joe Biden's historic running mate; A debate on Harris's "top cop" record as California attorney general and San Francisco DA; Bolivians protest the repeated postponement of presidential elections since the 2019 coup.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Brandon Sutton, host of the Discourse Podcast, to talk about Joe Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as his vice presidential candidate, the immediate and widespread approval of the decision by liberal mainstream media outlets, and what it says about the Democratic Party that they responded to an unprecedented movement to defund the police by appointing a 'tough-on-crime' prosecutor as Joe Biden's running mate.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by exiled Bolivian journalist Alberto Echazu to talk about what seems to be a decision by the coup-borne government to outsource the violent suppression of protests to the same far-right paramilitary groups which helped carry out last year's coup against elected Pres. Evo Morales, the ongoing campaign of political persecution facing leftist political figures and journalists, and how the right wing's consolidation of Bolivia's media landscape is helping supposedly-interim Pres. Jeanine Añez to convince Bolivians that protesters are blocking medical supplies despite abundant evidence to the contrary.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Maurice Carney, co-founder and Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, to discuss a new report revealing new details of the US Special Operations Forces operating in 22 countries across the African continent, how the huge military presence in Africa ensures continued resource access for foreign corporations, and the connection between US militarism in Africa and on the streets here in the US.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by independent researcher Sam Menefee-Libey to talk about Rep. Ilhan Omar's victory in the Democratic primary despite her challenger's extensive funding by corporate interests and the Israel lobby, the emerging split between the progressive liberals and the establishment centrists who control the Democratic Party, and how a similar dynamic is playing in Charlottesville after former Mayor Michael Signer published an op-ed in the Washington Post downplaying his role in allowing the deadly white supremacist terror attack three years ago.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Ollie Vargas, writer and journalist for Radio Kawsachun Coca, to talk about the huge uprising gripping Bolivia as protesters demand the US-backed Jeanine Añez regime hold elections as previously agreed, why the resistance is significantly stronger than when protesters previously seized key roads immediately following the November coup, and the links between attempts to privatize Bolivia's lithium supply and Elon Musk's recent tweet seemingly admitting to playing a role in the ouster of elected President Evo Morales.

Trump floats executive order amid evictions; Teachers fight back amid reckless reopenings; Bolivians seize roads, demand promised elections

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Ollie Vargas, a journalist with Radio Kawsachun Coca, to talk about protests demanding elections and an end to hunger on the six-month anniversary of the coup in Bolivia, why the new decree criminalizing misinformation amid the pandemic is likely to be aimed at giving cover to the Añez regime's efforts to persecute dissidents, and what explains the lack of pushback to new agribusiness-friendly legislation by the "environmentalists" who used the fires in the Chiquitania to pave the way for the ouster of Evo Morales.

How often do you hear the term superfoods these days? I hear health and fitness gurus talking about it all the time and my local grocery store even has a dedicated aisle just for superfoods! My guest today was really intrigued by this Superfood phenomenon. She wanted to know how these superfoods affect our bodies and how the growing of the foods affects farmers. Ann Shin is an award-winning director and producer known for beautiful, compelling documentary films, series, and innovative, interactive projects. Hers films and series have aired all over numerous networks including HBO, ABC, HGTV, and Discovery, just to name a few. Her latest documentary, The Superfood Chain, follows Ann as she meets farming families in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Philippines, and more who are affected by the Superfood industry. This was a fascinating conversation and I know you’re going to enjoy learning from Ann too. The Ann 101 Ann is a writer and documentary film maker who made her start at CBC radio. She has loved both writing and stories all her life and started her career doing radio documentaries. Ann loved working in the studio using clips to create stories with soundscapes. It wasn’t long before she realized she wanted to work on long form documentaries. Growing up on a mushroom farm in Langley, BC, Ann learned a lot about vegetable gardening. She lives in Toronto now and having a smaller patch of land got her curious about where we are getting our foods these days. It started her journey toward making The Superfood Chain, a documentary about superfoods from around the world. Ann’s experience with documentary subjects is vast. She has also covered stories about two war vets from the Iran, Iraq War called My Enemy, My Brother that was nominated for an Emmy and short-listed for an Oscar! She has also covered North Korean defectors escaping North Korea through China in a piece called The Defector. Ann has always loved expression through visual arts and made the transition from radio producer to TV producer, gradually pitching her own stories. At that time Ann also started working for production companies on documentary series. She directed a documentary for the National Film Board called Western Eyes about cosmetic surgery among Asian populations. Soon Ann was also directing as a freelancer on a range of lifestyle and documentary series. Many in the industry find the lifestyle series a grind because it’s so repetitive, but it helped Ann gain a lot of the directing experience she would need to go out on her on in the future. 8:45 – The Superfood Chain Like many of us, Ann enjoys shopping for healthy and whole foods, especially after learning more about where our food comes and growing a small garden with her daughter. When out shopping, she started to notice that every month there was a new superfood and marketing to go along with it. She started to wonder why suddenly superfoods were being introduced and promoted. She also wanted to understand the impact it had on farmers growing superfoods. Most superfoods are age-old crops grown on a small scale, and Ann questioned how the growth footprint may have changed as superfoods seemed to be exploding on a much larger (and popular) scale. When she served her children a dinner made with a superfood, they would ask where it’s from. Ann realized she couldn’t tell her kids the cultural significance of the food and only that they were eating it because it’s healthy. She started researching superfoods grown in other countries and how they get to our dinner plates. In popular culture, superfoods are known as healthy foods that help combat diseases and are super rich with nutrients and antioxidants to help us stay healthy. In many cases, Ann learned that these descriptors were just a big marketing tactic. As she researched more, she realized it was leading consumers to believe that superfoods are somehow better than the other nutrient-rich foods they have always had access to. We don’t necessarily need extra nutrients in North America where we have easy access to all the nutrients we need already. The hype around superfoods can lead people to think that they need to buy superfoods to be healthy when in fact there are tons of (non-superfood) foods around us that are very nutritional.  16:46 - A Shift We’ve seen a huge shift in the food industry in the last 10-15 years toward more organic, whole, and non-GMO food, and people are questioning where their food comes from more. Ann and her daughters took a trip to Boliva to learn how quinoa is grown. They learned that as demand for quinoa skyrocketed in North America, farmers in Boliva initially became wealthy, but quinoa soon became too expensive for local Bolivians to purchase. There was a big disruption in the sustainability of quinoa. When larger farms in Boliva and other parts of the world became successful, the quinoa prices dropped and the farmers who were initially successful started turning their farms back to grow potatoes because they made more money growing potatoes than quinoa. Global production caused farms that were initially successful to struggle to stay in business once quinoa prices fell.  21:13 – Our Buying Power There is a ripple effect with our buying decisions. It’s worth buying a fair-trade food products that you’ve researched because legitimate fair-trade organizations can lobby for land rights and help farmers get the equipment they need to keep their businesses going. We can also support the farmers near us. There are a lot of great nutritional options around us, and the closer the food is to us, the lower the footprint and the more meaningful the purchase. We can be mindful about how we shop in the grocery store and doing so can positively impact farmers that are near us and far away too. You can find The Superfood Chain HERE. It’s also available on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Voodoo, and Tubi. Fathomfilm.ca has more of Ann’s documentaries streaming as well! 30:45 - Getting to Know Our Guest Find out Ann’s strangest pet peeve, what she thinks we will be nostalgic for in forty years, and of course the question I ask all my guests! Stay tuned to hear Ann’s answer to what it means to her to run a business with purpose! Memorable Quotes: ~5:42 - “When something just sticks when me and I come back to it again and again, I find I want to delve into it further and I start to develop and research a documentary around it.”  ~11:10 – “I realized I was really divorced from one, where the food was coming from, but also how it’s prepared. There was no cultural significance to the food that I was feeding the kids.” 14:53 - “The hype around superfoods can be a bit misleading. People might think they need to buy the superfood to be healthy but in fact, no. There are extra nutrients in these foods, but there’s tons of foods around us that are very nutritional.” About Ann Shin: Ann is an award-winning Director and Producer known for beautiful, compelling documentary films, series and innovative interactive projects. Her films and series have aired on CBC, TVO, HBO, ABC, CBC The Documentary Channel, Discovery Channel, HGTV, History Channel, SLICE. Her latest film, My Enemy, My Brother won Grand Jury Prize at SDAIFF , the short version was shortlisted for a 2016 Academy Award, and nominated for an Emmy. Connect with Ann Shin: https://thesuperfoodchain.com/ https://tubitv.com/movies/500408/the_superfood_chain https://www.facebook.com/thesuperfoodchain/ https://twitter.com/FathomFilm https://www.instagram.com/thesuperfoodchain/

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas to get an update on the situation in Bolivia. The military dictatorship has done little to aid the country's working class as coronavirus spreads. Meanwhile Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), the party of ousted President Evo Morales, is trying to respond to the nation's health crisis on a local level. Elections in the country have been postponed as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Finally, in 2002, a poor, uneducated farmer and union leader, Evo Morales, ran for the Presidency, coming third, despite the US ambassador warning Bolivians that they would be punished if Morales won. Then, in the general election of December 2005, Morales won, becoming the first indigenous President in a country where 62% of the population identified as indigenous. The US, of course, were furious and immediately tried to get him thrown out. The post BFTN 59 – Bolivia 3 appeared first on The BS Filter.

112719 Indigenous Bolivians under the gun, House Progressive's Patriot Act Back Peddle by WBAI News with Paul DeRienzo

In the recent weeks Bolivia has been going through a difficult political turmoil. Protesters went on the streets forcing the president Evo Morales to step down and seek asylum in Mexico after the controversies regarding the presidential election process in the country. What sparked the anger? How did the Bolivians perceive living in the country under the rule of Evo Morales? Listen to the Rodney, UWC Mostar's Deputy Head, sharing with us his insights into the conflict to find out. It's never too late to start educating yourself about the world.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Ted Rall, an award winning journalist and editorial cartoonist whose work is at www.rall.com, and Jeremy Kuzmarov, a professor of American history whose latest book is “The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce.”The way yesterday’s first day of impeachment hearings went depends on your political viewpoint. CNN and MSNBC say that the testimony included bombshells about President Trump and his quid pro quo from two career diplomats that have upended the entire story. Fox says the hearings were boring and pointless and didn’t tell us anything important or that we didn’t already know. There were no hearings scheduled for today, but former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich, whom President Trump recalled as ambassador months ago, will testify tomorrow. Thursday’s weekly series “Criminal Injustice” is about the most egregious conduct of our courts and prosecutors and how justice is denied to so many people in this country. Paul Wright, the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center and editor of Prison Legal News (PLN), and Kevin Gosztola, a writer for Shadowproof.com and co-host of the podcast Unauthorized Disclosure, join the show. Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said yesterday that he would enter the Democratic presidential race. This is just days after former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg did the same. And a new poll from Iowa has shocked the race by showing South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg in first place there. Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden released his infrastructure plan and attacked Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, calling her “angry” and thus unfit to be President. Brian and John speak with Jacqueline Luqman, the editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, whose livestream is on every week on Facebook and Youtube. The situation in Bolivia continues its sharp move to the right, as self-proclaimed president Jeanine Anez, along with military and police leaders, continue to crack down on indigenous people and leftists. With thousands of protestors in the streets, exiled President Evo Morales urged Anez not to “stain herself with the blood of Bolivians.” And despite talk that Morales may seek to return to Bolivia, countries around the world are beginning to recognize the Anez government. Gerry Condon, a Vietnam-era veteran and war resister who has been a peace and solidarity activist for almost 50 years, currently as national president of Veterans for Peace, joins the show. Police in Washington yesterday tried unsuccessfully yesterday to arrest our friend Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the peace group Code Pink. They failed because they had no arrest warrant. But they made the ridiculous allegation that Medea had assaulted Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz at a press conference Wasserman Schultz attended in support of Venezuelan presidential pretender Juan Guaido. This action by the Washington DC police fits a new pattern, whereby truthtellers are being falsely arrested and charged with crimes after a massive show of police force just to silence them and to frighten others. Medea Benjamin, a well-known peace activist and the cofounder of the peace group Code Pink, joins Brian and John. Violence in Hong Kong continues to worsen, with protestors making and practicing throwing petrol bombs in a dry swimming pool on a university campus. The level of unrest and destruction in the almost six-month-long protest has reached new heights in recent days, with the Chinese state media warning protestors that they are “at the edge of doom.” KJ Noh, a peace activist and scholar on the geopolitics of Asia, and a frequent contributor to Counterpunch and Dissident Voice, joins the show.A regular Thursday segment deals with the ongoing militarization of space. As the US continues to withdraw from international arms treaties, will the weaponization and militarization of space bring the world closer to catastrophe? Brian and John speak with Prof. Karl Grossman, a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury and the host of a nationally aired television program focused on environmental, energy, and space issues.

As right-wing forces attack indigenous Bolivians and allies of Morales, the Trump administration says the toppling of the democratically-elected government “preserves democracy.” Anthropologist and Bolivia scholar Bret Gustafson offers a nuanced analysis of how the coup unfolded, who benefits from the crisis, and what is at stake for the overwhelmingly indigenous population. Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is now free after spending a year and a half behind bars. He says he wants to run for president and fight the far right regime of Jair Bolsonaro. The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald talks about his recent conversation with Lula, the threats against Intercept journalists in Brasil, and the latest on the corruption investigation into Justice Minister Sergio Moro.

Did the Democrats advance their position that US President Donald Trump has abused his power as president, or did Republicans defend their position that this impeachment inquiry is a politically motivated witch-hunt intended to overturn the 2016 election? I have no doubt that the Democrats will get articles of impeachment out of the House. Those articles will go forward to the Senate, where they will die their natural death. The Senate is controlled by the Republicans, and Chief Justice John Roberts will oversee the trial. Was anything provided Wednesday that is going to shift anyone's position either way?"Bolivian Senator Jeanine Añez, a leader of the nation's right-wing opposition party, declared herself interim president of the country Tuesday night despite lacking the constitutionally required number of lawmakers to approve her appointment," Common Dreams reported Wednesday. "'I assume the presidency immediately and will do everything necessary to pacify the country,' declared Añez, who has a history of racist attacks against indigenous Bolivians." This sounds eerily reminiscent of Venezuela and Juan Guido."Comcast's Supreme Court battle with Byron Allen may make racial discrimination harder to fight," read the headline for a Wednesday editorial for NBC News by legal analyst Maya Wiley. "The case isn't just about the cable company and one media mogul. The results of the company's legal strategy could be devastating to civil rights law." Who is Byron Allen, and why is this case so important?GUESTS:Ray Baker — Political analyst and host of the podcast Public Agenda.David Schultz — Professor of political science at Hamline University. Nino Pagliccia — Activist and freelance writer based in Vancouver. A retired researcher from the University of British Columbia, Canada, Pagliccia is a Venezuelan-Canadian who follows and writes about international relations with a focus on the Americas, and is also the editor of the book “Cuba Solidarity in Canada – Five Decades of People-to-People Foreign Relations.” Jackie Luqman — Co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation and the co-host of the Facebook livestream "Coffee, Current Events & Politics."

Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia, and he spoke to a group of Bolivians that politicians usually ignored. During his time in office, his social programs have drastically reduced poverty and grown the middle class. But his presidency wasn’t supposed to last forever. On Oct. 24, Bolivia declared him the winner of the presidential election. He’ll begin his fourth term, even though the constitution only allows two terms. LAND editor Colleen Connolly reports on Morales’s rise, the growing opposition against him in recent years and what his latest victory means for Bolivia. Guests: Ricardo Calla, Ben Dangl and Linda Farthing. Reporter: Colleen Connolly. Hosts: Alanna Elder and Cameron Oakes. Producer: Alanna Elder. LAND editor: Colleen Connolly.Music: "Becoming” by Jade Wii (YouTube Free Music), "Take Me To the Depths” by Midnight North (YouTube Free Music), "Three Kinds of Suns” by Norma Rockwell (YouTube Free Music) and a mix by Dax on the Trax.Other sounds: "Bolivia Protests 2," Associated Press, 2003"Bolivia Morales Wrap," Associated Press, 2005"Evo Morales en la ONU. En el acto por Año Internacional de Lenguas Indígenas,” Noticias Bolivia, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyb73mx3_QU"Protestas en Bolivia por sospechas de fraude electoral," Telemundo, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rndfiHxiQ8E

Season 2 starts off with a bang, with Barry leading the charge of a new production, Gene dealing with the aftermath of last season's finale, and NoHo Hank trying to keep the peace with the Bolivians and a new partner. Also... Lululemon! Chechen bullets! A botched safe job! All this and MUCH more on a brand new Starting... Now! We'll be posting episodes over the next few months, so stay tuned and keep in touch! You can tweet us at @NowStarting on Twitter, and talk to us on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/user-711521679)! 

First installment of a DOUBLE EPISODE. Tam apologises for dishing out bad medical advice on a recent episode before the lads delve into the world of insect stings. It turns out that bees may be bastards. Ants as sex toys, the Tory leadership contest, Bolivians scrapping and the Afghan wedding market are all up for discussion.

In the aftermath of the clash with the Bolivians, what happens with Barry and his compatriots in the car? What impact does that have on Goran, Noho Hank, and Fuches? Also... ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THAT SCENE?!?! If you've seen Episode 7 of the first season of Barry, you want to know the guys' thoughts on all these questions. All that and Macbeth, misery, and much, much more on Starting... Now! Episode 7! We'll be posting episodes over the next few months, so stay tuned and keep in touch! You can tweet us at @NowStarting on Twitter, and talk to us on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/user-711521679)! 

This week, we are reporting again from the front lines of the anti-war movement with a selection of speeches from the National March on the White House, held by the ANSWER Coalition on March 16. We begin with some perspective from Brian Griffith on the current moment in Latin America, then hear from a variety of national anti-war organizers, journalists, indigenous Bolivians, and Venezuelans themselves about the need to end the illegal U.S. economic warfare against Venezuela.

This week, we are reporting again from the front lines of the anti-war movement with a selection of speeches from the National March on the White House, held by the ANSWER Coalition on March 16. We begin with some perspective from Brian Griffith on the current moment in Latin America, then hear from a variety of national anti-war organizers, journalists, indigenous Bolivians, and Venezuelans themselves about the need to end the illegal U.S. economic warfare against Venezuela.

There are two Bolivians that might just be the oldest people on earth and possibly the oldest persons to ever live!

Bolivia’s dream of regaining sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean suffered a setback after a UN court sided with Chile, saying that Chile was not required to give Bolivia access to the sea. Landlocked Bolivia has been trying to regain a Pacific port ever since it lost a long coastline to Chile in a war in the late 1800s. Chile says that a peace treaty signed in 1904 settled the matter, but for Bolivians, access to the Pacific is a matter of national pride. Learn how to use the English phrase “sigh of relief.” Read the full transcript of this episode at http://www.plainenglish.com/94      Transcripts are always free and available now! ¿Hablas español? Você fala português? Parles-tu français? 你会说中文吗？日本語を話せますか？ The episode transcripts include instant translations from English to Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese and Japanese. Hover over or tap a highlighted word for the translation. Connect with Jeff on Twitter (@PlainEnglishPod) and Facebook (PlainEnglishPod). Or e-mail jeff@plainenglish.com If you like the program, please leave a review or rating wherever you listen. It will help others discover the program. Never miss an episode! Sign up to receive updates from Plain English at http://www.plainenglish.com/mail  Subscribers get exclusive links for further reading and additional practice with common English words and phrases. Learn English the fun way: with a podcast in English! Listen to an American English podcast that you enjoy and understand -- all at a slower speed than normal. | Aprende inglés gratis en línea con nuestro curso. Se habla a una velocidad lenta para que todos entiendan. ¡Aprende ingles con nosotros ahora! | Aprenda Inglês online grátis com o Plain English, a uma velocidade menor, para que todos possam entender.

On the sixth episode of The Activist Files, CCR Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks to attorneys Beth Stephens and Judith Chomsky, who both formerly worked at CCR and continue to collaborate as cooperating counsel on key cases. Beth and Judith represent a group of indigenous Bolivians who brought their former president to trial in the United States for ordering a military massacre that killed their family members. Mamani, et al. v. Sánchez de Lozada, a case that has spanned over a decade, went to trial this past spring – representing the first time a former head of state faced trial in the United States for human rights violations. It resulted in an historic guilty and unanimous jury verdict against the former president of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Stunningly, the judge subsequently overturned the jury verdict, and Beth and Judith are currently working with CCR to appeal. The story of Mamani is an inspiring example of what human rights litigation can achieve, and a demonstration of how, often, we must keep fighting, even after it seems we have won.

Dessutom om plastpåsens historia. Om traditionell Bolivians klädsel som blivit trendigt. Romer i Serbien hoppas på drägligare liv med EU. 1968 kom musiken som förenade olika proteströrelser i USA. Timme 1 * Vad håller ihop Italien? * Spaniens kris * Vad krävs för att vi ska börja äta insekter? * Plastpåsens historia * Krönikör Ulrika Knutson * Panelen Timme 2 * Gränshandeln blomstrar * Satir med UtkantsSverige * Klä sig traditionellt, trend i Bolivia * Musiken från 1968 som påverkade proteströrelserna i USA * Romer i Serbien hoppas på EU * Kåseri Emil Jensen

Finca El Fuerte was named in honor of the 'Fort of Samaipata', which is a unique ruin in Bolivia. El Fuerte de Samaipata (Fort Samaipata), also known simply as 'El Fuerte', is an archaeological site and a UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Santa Cruz department of Florida province. It is situated in the eastern foothills of the Bolivian Andes, and it's a popular tourist destination for Bolivians and foreigners alike. It is served by the nearby town of Samaipata. It is not actually a military fortification, but it is generally considered a pre-Columbian religious site, built by the Chané people, who were a pre-Inca culture of Arawak origin. There are also ruins of an Inca city built near the temple; the city was built during the Inca expansion to the southeast. Both Incas and Chanés suffered several raids from Guarani warriors, who invaded the region from time to time. Eventually, the Guarani warriors conquered the plains and valleys of Santa Cruz, and destroyed Samaipata. The Guaranis dominated the region well into the Spanish colonial period. The Spaniards also built a settlement near the temple, and there are remains of buildings of typical Andalusi Arabic architecture. The Spaniards abandoned the settlement and moved to the nearby valley, where the town of Samaipata is currently located. The archaeological site at El Fuerte is unique, and it encompasses buildings of three different cultures: Chanés, Incas and Spaniards. AgriCafe Buena Vista has been sourcing coffee from small coffee producers for three decades. However, the steady decline of coffee production has put at risk the sustainability of the business and the future of coffee production in Bolivia; it's at risk of disappearing completely. Faced with these circumstances and crises, AgriCafe assumes the challenge of boosting the production and supporting the Bolivian coffee growing. AgriCafe has undertaken the development of 'Fincas Buena Vista', which is home to new coffee plantations with a sustainable model based on three pillars: economical, social and environmental. Besides Caturra and Typica (both of which are traditional varieties in Bolivia), Agricafe has ventured into new exotic varieties to plant on its farms, and is also implementing new processes post-harvest. Finca El Fuerte is the first coffee farm in the Samaipata region that's focusing on producing specialty coffees. Finca El Fuerte is a bet to develop coffee agriculture in this new region which has all the conditions to produce spectacular high quality coffees, and it's a new opportunity for many farmers to start producing specialty coffee. Through a lot of effort in the new plantations, and a lot of effort in caring for the harvest and the beans' processing, it has managed to produce coffees like Geisha. AgriCafe has utilised a careful and delicate process, and it has achieved a coffee that highlights the attributes of sweetness, complexity and quality in the cup. In the cup expect mushed up yellow fruit (but in a good way). Think apricot and peach puree sweetness, flavour and texture that ends with a white grape finish. Country: Bolivia Province: Florida Department: Santa Cruz Farm: El Fuerte Altitude: 1,450–1,700 m.a.s.l. Varietal: Caturra Process: Pulped Natural Total hectares of the farm: 35 hectares Latitude: S 18°11’57’’ W 63°45’31’

Finca El Fuerte was named in honor of the 'Fort of Samaipata', which is a unique ruin in Bolivia. El Fuerte de Samaipata (Fort Samaipata), also known simply as 'El Fuerte', is an archaeological site and a UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Santa Cruz department of Florida province. It is situated in the eastern foothills of the Bolivian Andes, and it's a popular tourist destination for Bolivians and foreigners alike. It is served by the nearby town of Samaipata. It is not actually a military fortification, but it is generally considered a pre-Columbian religious site, built by the Chané people, who were a pre-Inca culture of Arawak origin. There are also ruins of an Inca city built near the temple; the city was built during the Inca expansion to the southeast. Both Incas and Chanés suffered several raids from Guarani warriors, who invaded the region from time to time. Eventually, the Guarani warriors conquered the plains and valleys of Santa Cruz, and destroyed Samaipata. The Guaranis dominated the region well into the Spanish colonial period. The Spaniards also built a settlement near the temple, and there are remains of buildings of typical Andalusi Arabic architecture. The Spaniards abandoned the settlement and moved to the nearby valley, where the town of Samaipata is currently located. The archaeological site at El Fuerte is unique, and it encompasses buildings of three different cultures: Chanés, Incas and Spaniards. AgriCafe Buena Vista has been sourcing coffee from small coffee producers for three decades. However, the steady decline of coffee production has put at risk the sustainability of the business and the future of coffee production in Bolivia; it's at risk of disappearing completely. Faced with these circumstances and crises, AgriCafe assumes the challenge of boosting the production and supporting the Bolivian coffee growing. AgriCafe has undertaken the development of 'Fincas Buena Vista', which is home to new coffee plantations with a sustainable model based on three pillars: economical, social and environmental. Besides Caturra and Typica (both of which are traditional varieties in Bolivia), Agricafe has ventured into new exotic varieties to plant on its farms, and is also implementing new processes post-harvest. Finca El Fuerte is the first coffee farm in the Samaipata region that's focusing on producing specialty coffees. Finca El Fuerte is a bet to develop coffee agriculture in this new region which has all the conditions to produce spectacular high quality coffees, and it's a new opportunity for many farmers to start producing specialty coffee. Through a lot of effort in the new plantations, and a lot of effort in caring for the harvest and the beans' processing, it has managed to produce coffees like Geisha. AgriCafe has utilised a careful and delicate process, and it has achieved a coffee that highlights the attributes of sweetness, complexity and quality in the cup. In the cup expect mushed up yellow fruit (but in a good way). Think apricot and peach puree sweetness, flavour and texture that ends with a white grape finish. Country: Bolivia Province: Florida Department: Santa Cruz Farm: El Fuerte Altitude: 1,450–1,700 m.a.s.l. Varietal: Caturra Process: Pulped Natural Total hectares of the farm: 35 hectares Latitude: S 18°11'57'' W 63°45'31'

I love a family link in coffee and this coffee has an awesome one, you know Teodocio Mamani from Canton Uyunense? Well this coffee comes from his son-in-law Cori Gill! 18 de mayo is a municipality of Caranavi (and part of Canton Uyunense), and lots of farms can be called a variation on these names because the land tends not to have a name. Cori has been inspired and helped by his father-in-law to grow coffee, in an area that's very common to grow coca. In fact there's a coca plantation very near to the farm, as in...next door!  He uses his father-in-law's facilities and expertise to help along the way, all the processing is done on the farm which is unusual for Bolivia, and then taken to the mill in larger lots for drying. In the cup it’s a buttery affair in both mouthfeel and taste. Sure there’s loads of delicious milk chocolate as we see in our other Bolivians, but here there’s buttermilk and a wonderful creamy mouthfeel with chocolate bitterness on the finish. Country: Bolivia Region: North Yungas City: Caranavi Municipality: 18 de Mayo Owner: Cori Gill Varietal: Caturra Processing Method: Washed Altitude: 1,600 - 1,650 m.a.s.l. Rainfall period: Nov–February Average temperature: 8°C ≤ 19°≥ 30°C Soil type: clay and shale

I love a family link in coffee and this coffee has an awesome one, you know Teodocio Mamani from Canton Uyunense? Well this coffee comes from his son-in-law Cori Gill! 18 de mayo is a municipality of Caranavi (and part of Canton Uyunense), and lots of farms can be called a variation on these names because the land tends not to have a name. Cori has been inspired and helped by his father-in-law to grow coffee, in an area that's very common to grow coca. In fact there's a coca plantation very near to the farm, as in...next door!  He uses his father-in-law's facilities and expertise to help along the way, all the processing is done on the farm which is unusual for Bolivia, and then taken to the mill in larger lots for drying. In the cup it's a buttery affair in both mouthfeel and taste. Sure there's loads of delicious milk chocolate as we see in our other Bolivians, but here there's buttermilk and a wonderful creamy mouthfeel with chocolate bitterness on the finish. Country: Bolivia Region: North Yungas City: Caranavi Municipality: 18 de Mayo Owner: Cori Gill Varietal: Caturra Processing Method: Washed Altitude: 1,600 - 1,650 m.a.s.l. Rainfall period: Nov–February Average temperature: 8°C ≤ 19°≥ 30°C Soil type: clay and shale

This is a coffee from a colony in Bolivia that we've not had coffee from since 2012/2013 (Bolivia Taypiplaya Jatun Kollo Mountain for those who remember!) and it's awesome to have something delicious from Taypiplaya back in 2016! Taypiplaya is quite a small town in the west of Bolivia, 14km from Caranavi it was formed in 1962 and corresponds to the third section of the Municipality of Caranavi. The region has grown coffee since 1975, when coffee growing was promoted by the government and assistance was offered. The colony has a population of only 750 people, of whom 150 are coffee producers (each owning around 2-3 hectares) and so you won't be surprised to hear that coffee is the main product of the area! It's been that way for about the last 10 years and I certainly hope it's going to stay the same : ) Elda Choquehuanca produces coffee with her husband Felix and they source their cherries from the colony of Taypiplaya, every night from midnight to 0400hrs Elda and Felix transport the cherries the local wet mill at Buena Vista which is run by AgriCafe where the coffee is processed for them.  AgriCafe manage 7 farms in the area (including La Linda!) and help local farmers to process their coffee when they don't have access to their own wet mill. In the cup this is like eating a chocolate digestive biscuit with a glass of apple juice! Up front there's a hit of digestive biscuit then the delicious milk chocolate I love tasting in our Bolivians, all finishing off with sweet juicy apple and more milk chocolate in the aftertaste. Country: Bolivia Region: Caranavi Town: Taypiplaya Altitude: 1,500 - 1,550 m.a.s.l. Producer: Elda Choquehuanca and her husband Felix Processing method: Washed Varietals: Caturra and Typica Washing: Mechanical Fermentation: Semi-wet Fermentation time: 12 hours, 30 minutes Drying method: Drier Drying time: 41 hours

This is a coffee from a colony in Bolivia that we've not had coffee from since 2012/2013 (Bolivia Taypiplaya Jatun Kollo Mountain for those who remember!) and it's awesome to have something delicious from Taypiplaya back in 2016! Taypiplaya is quite a small town in the west of Bolivia, 14km from Caranavi it was formed in 1962 and corresponds to the third section of the Municipality of Caranavi. The region has grown coffee since 1975, when coffee growing was promoted by the government and assistance was offered. The colony has a population of only 750 people, of whom 150 are coffee producers (each owning around 2-3 hectares) and so you won't be surprised to hear that coffee is the main product of the area! It's been that way for about the last 10 years and I certainly hope it's going to stay the same : ) Elda Choquehuanca produces coffee with her husband Felix and they source their cherries from the colony of Taypiplaya, every night from midnight to 0400hrs Elda and Felix transport the cherries the local wet mill at Buena Vista which is run by AgriCafe where the coffee is processed for them.  AgriCafe manage 7 farms in the area (including La Linda!) and help local farmers to process their coffee when they don't have access to their own wet mill. In the cup this is like eating a chocolate digestive biscuit with a glass of apple juice! Up front there's a hit of digestive biscuit then the delicious milk chocolate I love tasting in our Bolivians, all finishing off with sweet juicy apple and more milk chocolate in the aftertaste. Country: Bolivia Region: Caranavi Town: Taypiplaya Altitude: 1,500 - 1,550 m.a.s.l. Producer: Elda Choquehuanca and her husband Felix Processing method: Washed Varietals: Caturra and Typica Washing: Mechanical Fermentation: Semi-wet Fermentation time: 12 hours, 30 minutes Drying method: Drier Drying time: 41 hours

Having recently returned from his latest visit to some of the most remote areas of Bolivia, Ramesh Srinivasan, director of the UC Digital Cultures Lab and an Associate Professor in Information Studies  at UCLA, joins The Young Turks’ Dave Koller to discuss how cultural diversity can be empowered through technology efforts. Bolivia is such a richly multicultural nation that it can be seen as an interesting example for many of us across the world who are interested in how to support cultural diversity in a world where this is being lost. Srinivasan shares fascinating stories of how Bolivia’s indigenous communities are reinventing traditional media - specifically radio - to spread information across far-flung regions of the country, promote indigenous causes and help organize labor and workers. He provokes us to think about how social media and Internet initiatives can learn from radio. Also discussed in this wide-ranging interview: - The emerging and dynamic politics of South America, with an eye toward Bolivia and the pope's recent visit to the region - The tensions and paradoxes associated with Bolivian president Evo Morales - How radio may provide an answer to the angst we feel about the Internet - Why new media and the Internet have failed to take hold with rural and indigenous communities and how radio can be a teacher in overcoming this. - How technologies can support indigenous and non-western values and beliefs. - What those of us in the west can learn from Bolivia’s efforts to promote connectedness. - The first-hand experience of seeing Bolivians’ reaction to Pope Francis’ recent visit. Visit the UC Digital Cultures Lab's website: http://digitalcultures.net Follow Ramesh on Twitter: @rameshmedia Follow Dave on Twitter: @DaveKoller Watch Ramesh’s interview with Cenk Uygur on Tahrir Square and social media: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pi29UzPnMs Watch Ramesh’s earlier interview with Dave on the South American Indigenous Internet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTaNyJRlq84 Like this interview? Enough that you want to throw a little Bitcoin our way? Great! Do it here: https://www.coinbase.com/TYT For more interviews, subscribe to our channel HERE:  https://www.youtube.com/user/TYTInterviews Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks Friend Us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tytinterviews Follow Us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks Support TYT for FREE by doing your Amazon shopping through this link (bookmark it!)  http://www.amazon.com/?tag=theyoungturks-20 Support The Young Turks by becoming a member of TYT Nation at http://http://www.tytnetwork.com/subscribe. Your membership supports the day to day operations and is vital for our continued success and growth. In exchange, we provided members only bonuses! We tape a special Post Game show Mon-Thurs and you get access to the entire live show at your convenience in video, audio and podcast formats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jaime is a recent MBA graduate and teaches intrepid students how to fly planes at UAA. When she is not hanging out with her very tolerant husband and two daughters, she ferries planes to Miami (for Bolivians who pay cash), walks on the mudflats to Fire Island, swims across Little Campbell Lake, mountain bikes, cross-country skis and volunteers as an usher at the PAC. She does not own a TV, but avidly listens to NPR while trying out new tofu recipes.

Letters... We get letters! Plus, failing vision, pretzel buns, Bolivians on rocks... and some courtesy PLEASE.

The recent feuding within Nelson Mandela's family has reminded us that within the anti-apartheid hero's myth is a man and a family with very human frailties, as Gabriel Gatehouse ponders when he visits a play in Johannesburg. Yolande Knell pays a visit to the deported cleric Abu Qatada's new home - Jordan's al-Muwaqar Prison. Jo Fidgen joins the crew of a Norwegian whale hunting boat. Ed Stocker finds out why some poorer Bolivians can't afford to eat their staple food, quinoa, any more. And Dany Mitzman on the Calabrian mafia's most recent and high profile victim.

We've spent the last ten days in Bolivia, which isn't really enough to do it justice. But we've had a great time and have learned a lot about travel in this beautiful South American country. Border crossing The border between Peru and Bolivia is easy to cross. We went by bus, and the bus stopped outside the police station to allow us to hand in our tourist cards - it's really important that you don't lose this little piece of paper! You'll get it when you enter Peru. After the police station, we went to immigration for our exit stamp, then walked about 200m up the road to the Bolivian offices, where we filled in forms and got our entry stamps. Despite the fact that as Kiwis we can stay for up to 90 days, they only gave us 30-day visas ... apparently we can extend them in La Paz, but we didn't get the full quota automatically. And the border crossing wasn't easy for all of us. Ange's passport had been stolen in Cusco, and though she'd got a replacement travel document and had a full police report of what had happened, apparently this wasn't good enough for the Peruvian border guards. She needed an entry stamp, which she apparently had to get back in Cusco, but of course her travel document was only valid for that one day. Luckily a one-off fee solved the problem, and we were allowed to leave the country. Copacabana and the Isla del Sol Copacabana is a tiny little tourist town perched on the edge of Lake Titicaca. Its lack of ATMs made it difficult to get cash - always make sure you have a stash of emergency money for this kind of situation. US dollars are definitely the currency of choice to carry around in South America, and we found the exchange rates at the border and in Copacabana to be very reasonable. Copacabana is a good jumping-off point for tours to the Isla del Sol. You can camp or stay in a hostal on the island, but we chose to do a one-day trip. It was very well-priced: it would have cost us about the same to do the same thing independently. We were dropped off at one end of the island, and the boat met us on the other side. We've noticed that the Bolivians are much more concerned about time than the Peruvians - both boat trips left very nearly on time, and anyone who wasn't there to get on the boat was left behind. Bus journeys Bus travel in Bolivia has been an experience. It's a step down from Peru, which in turn was a step down from the excellent service in Chile. The trip from Copacabana to La Paz included a surprise boat trip, which we hadn't been told about and had to pay for. We had planned to get more cash from an ATM in La Paz and so didn't have much money, but luckily we'd changed a little more just before we left. We went across on a motorboat while the bus crossed by a wooden barge. It was interesting, to say the least! The bus from La Paz to Uyuni had a different seat configuration from the one we'd been shown when we booked our tickets, so we weren't in the seats we wanted, and our group wasn't sitting together. There also seemed to be a lot of extra stops along the way, despite the fact that we'd been told that it was a direct service. La Paz La Paz is a sprawling city with a lot of markets and hills. It's the highest city in the world, so altitude might be a problem for some - luckily coca tea is easy to come by, which should help you out. There's also a lot of excellent street food to try, like papa rellena (deep-fried stuffed mashed potatoes), freshly-squeezed juices, doughnuts and other gems. There are a lot of taxis to choose from in La Paz, but use ones with a radio for security. They should call their base to let the base know where they're headed and with how many people. As always in South America, agree on a fare before you get into the car, and if you don't feel safe, choose another taxi. For more visit http://indietravelpodcast.com/podcast/travel-bolivia-safety/

A talk by authors Jim Shultz & Melissa Crane Draper. (Moderated by Jerome McDonnell, host of Chicago Public Radio's Worldview.) Author Jim Shultz is founder and Executive Director of the San Francisco based Democracy Center and has lived and worked in Bolivia for much of the past decade, chronicling grassroots movements to control exploitation of Bolivia's natural resources, from water resources to oil and natural gas. With Melissa Crane Draper and other Democracy Center affiliates, Shultz places Bolivians' struggles in a broader context of Latin America's experiences with forces of globalization. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.