Bolivian President Evo Morales addressed the United Nations General Assembly on February 1 for the opening ceremony of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, where he warned about the accelerated destruction such听languages are suffering.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales said 鈥渢he听 is the real threat to humankind鈥 on September 7 in response to US Senator Marco Rubio's talk of using the US Armed Forces against the Venezuelan government. Rubio had said Venezuela 鈥渉as become a threat for the region and even for the United States鈥.
Voices from across South America have denounced Israel鈥檚 massacre of more than 50 Palestinians on May 14 and its ongoing repression of protesters participating in the Great March of Return that began in Gaza on March 30.
They have also condemned the United States鈥 decision to move its Embassy to Jerusalem and pledged support to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid.
Latin American听leaders have strongly defended听the world鈥檚 most impoverished migrants after US President Donald Trump听reportedly referred to certain developing听nations as 鈥渟hithole听countries鈥.
Bolivian President Evo听Morales expressed his indignation on Twitter: 鈥淭o insult African countries, El Salvador and Haiti, Trump insults the world and demonstrates his opinions and politics are contaminated by capitalist racism, fascism, arrogance, and ignorance.
鈥淗istory has shown that those who offend like this end up eating their words.鈥
October 9 marks the 50th anniversary of the CIA-ordered assassination of Che Guevara.
In light of a recent upsurge in denunciations of Che and the Cuban Revolution, it is important to separate fact from fiction.
Bolivia鈥檚 President Evo Morales used his September 19 speech to the United Nations General Assembly to condemn terrorism, abusive market practices and wars in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Libya as well as the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
In his address to the 72nd UN General Assembly听in New York, Morales also sent听his solidarity to the people of Mexico听after the 7.1 earthquake and Caribbean nations devastated by hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Plebeian Power: Collective Action & Indigenous, Working-Class & Popular Identities in Bolivia
By Alvaro Garcia Linera
Haymarket Books, 2014
345 pp, US$28.00
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Alvaro Garcia Linera, twice-elected vice-president of Bolivia, is the continent鈥檚 most prominent theoretician-politician to place 21st century Latin American left thought in a Marxist framework.
Bolivian听President Evo Morales has rejected the United States听economic blockade imposed on Cuba, as well as President Donald Trump鈥檚 decision to backtrack on the normalisation of diplomatic relations with Havana.
In a public letter sent to his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, Morales repeated his nation鈥檚 鈥渦nconditional support and solidarity鈥 with the Cuban Revolution and the 鈥渕ost heroic people of the continent鈥.
Convened by the Bolivian government and social movements, a global peoples鈥 summit on migrant and refugee rights attracted more than 4000 pro-migrant and refugee rights activists from 43 countries. Dubbed the World People鈥檚 Conference听鈥淔or a World without Borders Towards Universal Citizenship鈥, it was held in the town of Tiquipaya, on June 20-21.
Bolivian President Evo Morales offered to 鈥渇ree鈥 Organization of American States, OAS, Secretary General Luis Almagro from the 鈥淣orth American empire鈥 on June 24
鈥淚 offer to free brother Luis Almagro from submission to the North American empire,鈥 Morales said in a tweet. 鈥淎ll for the dignity and sovereignty of our peoples.鈥
The message came only hours after Almargo declared that he would resign 鈥渇or freedom in Venezuela.鈥
At the closing of the on June 21 in Tiquipaya, Bolivia, social movements called for a 鈥渨orld without walls,鈥澨齱hile Bolivian President Evo Morales urged social movements to adopt the progressive proposals of the gathering's final declaration, which dubbed the migration crisis as just one symptom of neoliberal globalisation.听
The Bolivian government has proposed a bill that would allow workers to take over the private companies they work at if they go bankrupt, and convert them into 鈥渟ocial companies鈥 to stimulate production and address unemployment, Pagina Siete reported on May 16.
The government justified the measure as part of the state's duty to protect labour rights and generate job opportunities while improving the productive apparatus of the country.
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