tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32492462.post3685699035319482707..comments2023-12-27T05:36:10.037+11:00Comments on Bolivia Rising: Bolivian ambassador to UN, Pablo Solon, press conference at Climate Negotiations Aug. 6Bolivia Risinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931217260294325442noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32492462.post-92222480798419618992010-09-05T22:39:16.118+10:002010-09-05T22:39:16.118+10:00two good articles being passed around here, wonder...two good articles being passed around here, wonder what the reply is:<br />the revolution needs to review and analyze itself, please bring up and ask about this:<br /><br />Social Tensions Erupt in Bolivia <br />Written by Federico Fuentes <br />Sunday, 15 August 2010<br />http://upsidedownworld.org/main/bolivia-archives-31/2642-social-tensions-erupt-in-bolivia<br /><br />The Rebellion in Potosí: Uneven Development, Neoliberal Continuities, and a Revolt Against Poverty in Bolivia <br />Written by Jeffery R. Webber <br />Monday, 16 August 2010<br />http://upsidedownworld.org/main/bolivia-archives-31/2643--the-rebellion-in-potosi-uneven-development-neoliberal-continuities-and-a-revolt-against-poverty-in-bolivia<br /><br />Quotes:<br /><br />Unfortunately, with the continuity of neoliberal mining policy under the government of Evo Morales, the bulk of the wealth generated by mineral exploitation continues to be repatriated to imperial countries outside of Bolivia, leaving only poverty, unemployment, regional underdevelopment, and environmental contamination in its wake.<br /><br />This is the backdrop to the extraordinary and ongoing popular revolt against poverty we’ve witnessed in Potosí since it first broke out, 18 days ago, on July 30, 2010. Again, the crux of the situation is that the mining regime that prevails in Potosí, as elsewhere in the country, is fundamentally neoliberal, and that this is a MAS strategy, not a deviation from their plan, or a distortion by disgruntled state bureaucrats, leftover from old regimes.10<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />The hegemony exercised by transnational capital in the mining sector in Bolivia calls into question the viability of the Morales government’s commitment to “harmony” and “equity” between different forms of property (state, private, communitarian, and cooperative), or what it terms a “plural economy.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com