February 26, 2008

 Evo Morales to visit Boston!

• Information on Evo Morales
• Sites for Bolivia News and Analysis
• News Articles about Bolivia
• Books about Bolivia
• Films about Morales and Bolivia

Resources, Articles & Web Links on Bolivia*

Information on Evo Morales:

• Presidencia de Bolivia (Spanish)
• Evo Morales’ letter to the United Nations, 26 September 2007 – “Let’s Respect Our Mother Earth”
• Evo Morales’ appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 25 September 2007
• Evo Morales speaks before UN in 2006 YouTube
• Democracy Now!, 26 September 2007, “Bolivian President Evo Morales on Indigenous Rights, Climate Change, Iraq, Establishing Diplomatic Relations with Iran, Che Guevara’s Legacy and More”
• Nueva Constitución Política del Estado
• Gobierno de Bolivia
• MAS (Movimiento al Socialismo)

Sites for Bolivia News and Analysis:

• Bolivia Rising (*has numerous links to other Bolivia-related sites)
• Upside Down World Bolivia page
• naclanews Bolivia page
• Indymedia Bolivia
• Rebelión Bolivia page
• ZNet Bolivia page
• The Democracy Center
• Agencia Boliviana de Información
• LANIC Bolivia resources

News Articles about Bolivia:

• Democracy Now!, 11 February 2008, “US Embassy in Bolivia Tells Fulbright Scholar and Peace Corps Volunteers to Spy on Venezuelans and Cubans in Bolivia”
• Democracy Now!, 11 February 2008, “Report: U.S. Funding Opposition Groups in Bolivia”
• Benjamin Dangl, The Progressive, February 2008, “Undermining Bolivia”
• Frank Chávez, Upside Down World, 1 February 2008, “Bolivia: Morales Reaches Two-Year Milestone”
• Laura Carlsen, CounterPunch, 8 January 2008, “Lessons for the Rest of the World: Why Bolivia Matters”
• Benjamin Dangl, Upside Down World, 3 January 2008, “Fear and Loathing in Bolivia: New Constitution, Polarization”
• Democracy Now!, 17 December 2007, “Four of Bolivia’s Wealthiest Regions Declare Autonomy in Protest of New Constitution”
• La República (España), 16 Diciembre 2007, “Bolivia: La Revolución No Violenta”
• Laura Carlsen, CIP Americas Program, 16 November 2007, “Americas Policy Program Interview with Álvaro García Linera, Vice President of Bolivia: Bolivia – Coming to Terms with Diversity”
• Andalusia Knoll, Upside Down World, 16 October 2007, “Anarchism and Indigenous Resistance in Bolivia: Interview with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui”
• Center for Constitutional Rights, 26 September 2007, “Human Rights Lawsuits Brought Against Former Bolivian President and Minister of Defense for Complicity in Attacks on Civilians”
• The Democracy Center, 2007, “Re-Founding Bolivia: A Nation’s Struggle Over Constitutional Reform”
• The Democracy Center, “Investigation: Bechtel vs. Bolivia: The Bolivian Water Revolt”
• Benjamin Dangl, ZNet, 24 September 2003, “Bolivia’s Gas War”

Books about Bolivia:

• The Democracy Center, Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Globalization (forthcoming 2008)
• Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson, Revolutionary Horizons: Popular Struggle in Bolivia (Verso, 2007)
• Benjamin Dangl, The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia (AK Press, 2007)
• Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen, eds. Latin America after Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the Twenty First Century? (New Press, 2006)
• Benjamin Kohl and Linda C. Farthing, Impasse in Bolivia (Zed Books, 2006)
• William Powers, Whispering in the Giant’s Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia’s War on Globalization (Bloomsbury USA, 2006)
• Oscar Olivara, ¡Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia (South End Press, 2004)

Films about Evo Morales and Bolivia:

• Cocalero (2006) (*can be watched as 10-part series on YouTube in Spanish [can also be embedded])
• The Devil’s Miner (2005)
• Our Brand is Crisis (2005)

Note: These links and articles are provided for information purposes only. These should not be taken to represent either the Bolivian government or the organizations sponsoring this event.