Bolivia
From Dec. 3 to 5 in Tijuana, Mexico — just minutes from the San Diego,
Calif., airport — a cross-section of workers from Latin America who are
confronting the global crisis will meet with U.S. workers grappling with
devastating challenges. Building on six previous conferences, the
meeting’s aim is to grow the unity of the working class in the Americas
and increase its influence — from the tip of Chile to Alaska — by
sharing problems but also examining strategies to fight and win....
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Worker s (CTC) will visit Tijuana,
Mexico, a border city 15 minutes south of downtown San Diego and the
San Diego Airport - U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people
from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to
hear first hand from the Latinoamerican and Caribbean workers. Also, you will
hear from Union leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Haiti,
Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the
U.S. discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas.
and coordinators of Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America have also been
invited. ESNA is a new development that involves the largest and most militant
labor federations throughout Latin America.
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The International Action Center has announced the formation of the Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee. The committee has already begun planning a number of events in solidarity with the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) of Honduras....
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The struggle between U.S. imperialism on one side and the movement for
sovereignty and self-determination for the countries of Latin America on the other reached a new stage in early September with use of paramilitary force against the popular Evo Morales government in Bolivia. This escalation has already led to more than 30 deaths, the expulsion of two U.S. ambassadors and an emergency meeting of Latin America heads of state in Chile....
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The International Action Center would like to express its solidarity with Bolivia, President Evo Morales, and the MAS government in this time of U.S. orchestrated violence in Santa Cruz and other departments of the Media Luna. We support Bolivia's declaration of the U.S. Ambassador Phillip Goldberg as a persona non grata, and we protest U.S. involvement in Bolivia and its efforts to undermine and subvert the process of change in Bolivia that will benefit the sectors of its population that have been most oppressed, the Indigenous and Afro-Bolivian peoples. ...
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With little more than a month past since Bolivian President Evo
Morales won a recall referendum with 67% of the vote, Bolivia's
secessionist opposition has taken to the streets beginning in Santa Cruz, one
of the wealthiest regions of the country. Three days of mayhem and violence
have wracked the city of Santa Cruz resulting in at least 8 deaths so far,
spurred on by calls broadcast over the national media to join in "civil
disobedience" against the government....
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With shouts of "Jallalah Evo" and "Jallalah
Bolivia," which roughly translate to "We will continue in the
struggle," thousands of exhilarated Bolivians celebrated their triumph
over a recall referendum on Aug. 10. They gathered in Plaza Murillo facing
Palacio Quemado, the presidential palace, awaiting their president, Evo
Morales, after defeating the recall by a wide margin....
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