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BOLIVIA: ¿Quién gobernará Bolivia? - por Olivia Arigho-Stiles
BOLIVIA: Olivia Arigho-Stiles JACOBIN Los bloqueos en Bolivia son una colosal demostración del poder obrero e indígena contra un gobierno derechista impopular. Pero en tanto las movilizaciones no se unifiquen, el peligro del vacío político estará al acecho Más de 40 días de bloqueos llevaron a Bolivia a un punto de quiebre. Pero mientras el control del presidente Rodrigo Paz sobre el poder se debilita, no está claro qué fuerza política podría tomarlo.
WHO Will Rule Bolivia?
Bolivia is at breaking point. For over forty days, the cities of La Paz and El Alto, along with the regions of Oruro, Potosí, and Cochabamba, have been strangled by blockades impeding the passage of food, goods, and people by road. Demonstrators seek the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. The blockades are a colossal display of worker and indigenous power against an unpopular right-wing government.
Who Will Rule Bolivia?
Bolivia is at breaking point. For over forty days, the cities of La Paz and El Alto, along with the regions of Oruro, Potosí, and Cochabamba, have been strangled by blockades impeding the passage of food, goods, and people by road. Demonstrators seek the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. The blockades are a colossal display of worker and indigenous power against an unpopular right-wing government.
Bolivia’s Social Movements Mobilize Against Privatization
“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,” Frantz Fanon wrote in The Wretched of the Earth: “the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” Marching for over twenty days from the tropics into freezing high-altitude terrain, many wearing nothing more substantial on their feet than plastic sandals, land workers and indigenous representatives arrived in the capital of La Paz this week to defend their territories.
Bolivia’s Social Movements Mobilize Against Privatization
In Bolivia, the unions representing miners and peasants have declared an indefinite strike, seeking the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. They are protesting a new law that undermines peasant and indigenous land rights.
La victoria de la COB demuestra que, aunque el MAS haya sido derrotado como fuerza electoral el año pasado, sus movimientos sociales se han recompuesto. (Jorge Bernal / AFP vía Getty Images) Después del MAS, la clase trabajadora vuelve a imponer límites e
"¡Fuerza, fuerza, fuerza! ¡Fuerza, compañeros!", gritaba un hombre con casco de minero a través de un megáfono. Marchando por las calles soleadas y envueltas en una nube de ruidosos petardos, miles de mineros, trabajadores, campesinos, asociaciones de la sociedad civil y organizaciones indígenas de Bolivia se congregaron en la ciudad de La Paz a principios de este mes en la mayor movilización social de los últimos cinco años.
“Bolivia Is Not for Sale”
“Bolivia Is Not for Sale” Published January 22, 2026 "Fuerza, fuerza, fuerza, fuerza! Fuerza, compañeros!” bellowed a man in a miner’s helmet into a megaphone. Marching through the sun-drenched streets in the haze of noisy firecrackers, thousands of miners, workers, peasants, civil society associations, and indigenous organizations in Bolivia descended on the city of La Paz earlier this month in the biggest social mobilization in at least five years.
“Bolivia Is Not for Sale”
“Fuerza, fuerza, fuerza! Fuerza, compañeros!” bellowed a man in a miner’s helmet into a megaphone. Marching through the sun-drenched streets in the haze of noisy firecrackers, thousands of miners, workers, peasants, civil society associations, and indigenous organizations in Bolivia descended on the city of La Paz earlier this month in the biggest social mobilization in at least five years.
Is This the End of MAS?
As Bolivia celebrated its two hundredth year of independence last week, the mood on the streets and in the countryside was far from jubilant. National elections take place on Sunday, and Bolivia is confronting a spiraling economic crisis and the total collapse of the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) that has been in power for the past two decades.
Se ensancha la brecha dentro del MAS
Fuentes: Jacobin El conflicto entre Evo Morales y Luis Arce por la presidencia de Bolivia en 2025 no solo divide al Movimiento Al Socialismo, sino también a los movimientos sociales y sindicatos que forman su base. Junto a las bulliciosas fiestas callejeras del carnaval, a finales de febrero se celebraron en toda Bolivia las tradicionales ceremonias de ch’alla.
Se ensancha la brecha dentro del MAS
Junto a las bulliciosas fiestas callejeras del carnaval, a finales de febrero se celebraron en toda Bolivia las tradicionales ceremonias de ch’alla. Durante las mismas se quema incienso y se ofrecen bendiciones de hojas de coca y alcohol a la Pachamama en rituales que afirman los lazos de reciprocidad entre la gente y la Madre Tierra.
Bolivia’s Ruling Leftwing Movement Vertically Split Before Prez Elections In 2025
By Olivia Arigho-Stiles Bolivia which elected the Left wing President Luis Arce in 2020 giving a big boost to the Left and progressive forces in Latin America, is facing a split in its political leadership with the present president fighting the former president and Arce’s mentor Evo Morales. Since the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) returned to power under Luis Arce in 2020, ex-president Evo Morales has been honing his support base with the hope of returning as president.
A Rift Has Opened in Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism
Alongside the boisterous street parties of Carnival, traditional ch’alla ceremonies took place in late February across Bolivia. Incense was burned and blessings of coca leaves and alcohol were offered to Pachamama, or Mother Earth, in rituals affirming bonds of reciprocity between people and Pachamama. But in addition to the unwelcome, festive chaki (hangover), a deepening political and social rift is adding to the headache of the left and progressive movements in Bolivia.
Bolivian Government Facing Crisis Due To Infighting In Ruling MAS
By Olivia Arigho-Stiles Bolivia’s governing party and a shining light of the Latin American left, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), is mired in a deep internal crisis. Recently, during the MAS congress in the coca-growing town of Lauca Ñ, President Luis Arce and his vice president, David Choquehuanca, were expelled from the party and prevented from running in the 2025 national elections.
What Is Going on With the Bolivian Left?
Bolivia’s governing party and a shining light of the Latin American left, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), is mired in a deep internal crisis. Recently, during the MAS congress in the coca-growing town of Lauca Ñ, President Luis Arce and his vice president, David Choquehuanca, were expelled from the party and prevented from running in the 2025 national elections.
Bolivian Trade Union Leader Orlando Gutiérrez Gave His Life for Democracy and Socialism
The charismatic mining union leader Orlando Gutiérrez has died in Bolivia, days after he was beaten viciously by a fascist gang protesting the results of the Bolivian elections in which the left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) triumphed. Gutiérrez’s death at just thirty-six years comes amid a surge in violence directed against the trade union and campesino movements in the wake of the coup last November.
A Historic Victory in Bolivia
Bolivians celebrate the presidential election victory which returned the MAS party to power Photo by Santiago Sito Fireworks exploded across the night sky in the Bolivian capital of La Paz on Sunday evening, October 18th, as the projected results came through showing a near-landslide victory for the left-wing Movimiento al socialismo (MAS) and its presidential candidate, Luis Arce, in the country’s national elections.
Democracy Looks Set to Return to Bolivia. What Next?
Exit polls suggest a decisive victory for the left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) in Bolivia, with Luis Arce Catacora set to become the country’s next president. After a year with an unelected government which has presided over massacres, vicious political repression and corruption scandals, the election heralds a dramatic return to democracy for the plurinational state.
Evo Morales Was the Americas’ Greatest President
In October 2003, Bolivia was in the grips of revolutionary insurrection. Residents in El Alto, the neighboring city of La Paz, were blocking the supply of fuel to the capital in protest at a deal to sell off Bolivian gas to Chile on unfavorable terms. To quash the protest, the government ordered the military to fire on the unarmed civilians, killing dozens.
Far-Right Forces Emboldened in Post-Coup Bolivia
On 22 January, in celebration of Bolivia’s Day of the Plurinational State, exiled former president Evo Morales addressed a packed-out stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, affirming his commitment to the struggle for social liberation in Bolivia. His speech came as Bolivia is embroiled in a devastating crisis of democracy after a military-civic coup in October 2019.
Period of Calm Obscures Deepening Crisis of Democracy in Bolivia
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair La Paz, Bolivia After the coup in November in which ex-President Evo Morales was forcibly removed from power, the political situation in Bolivia has now settled into what appears to be, a period of calm. Mass protests in the street have ceased, and so have the state killings. But this superficial tranquility belies developments which point to a deepening erosion of democracy in Bolivia.
Bolivian Police Gas Funeral March in Latest Crack-Down
Photograph Source: Zlatica Hoke – Public Domain La Paz, Bolivia Last Thursday thousands of people descended into La Paz from El Alto carrying the caskets of eight people shot dead by police earlier that week. Emotions were running high and protestors had tears streaming down their faces. They had assembled peacefully to demand justice. “Áñez, murderer. We want your resignation”, they shouted. “Justicia!”. It was not a march in support of a political party; it was a march of grief and fury.
Bolivia Lurches Towards Dictatorship
It is just over a week since former Bolivian president Evo Morales was forced to resign in a coup which has dramatically fractured Bolivia’s institutions and left a trail of bloodshed. With eleven people shot dead by state forces and hundreds injured in a week of violence, Bolivia is fast slipping into a violent and militarised regime steered by the emboldened right. The new interim president is an unelected religious conservative who has promised to ‘return the bible’ to government.
Bolivia’s Tragic Turmoil
It took two days after Evo Morales’s abrupt resignation on November 10 for a new president to take the reins of Bolivia. Conservative opposition leader and second vice president of the Senate, Jeanine Añez, appointed herself to the position in the presence of only a handful of opposition lawmakers. Representatives of Morales’s MAS party boycotted the session, withholding the quorum necessary to officially accept Morales’s resignation and approve the interim president.
Protestors Massacred in Post-Coup Bolivia
The sign reads: “RESIGN self-proclaimed President, Jeanine Añez.” Photo: Olivia Arigho-Stiles. La Paz, Bolivia Eight are dead and hundreds injured in a week of bloodshed after Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales was forced to resign from power last Sunday.
Bolivia’s Tragic Turmoil
It took two days after Evo Morales’s abrupt resignation on November 10 for a new president to take the reins of Bolivia. Conservative opposition leader and second vice president of the Senate, Jeanine Añez, appointed herself to the position in the presence of only a handful of opposition lawmakers. Representatives of Morales’s MAS party boycotted the session, withholding the quorum necessary to officially accept Morales’s resignation and approve the interim president.
Bolivia’s Coup Threatens the Struggle for Social Liberation and Economic Justice
The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has been forced from office in a coup following two weeks of civil unrest and a disputed presidential election. It is not the US-backed coup many have declared on social media, reading from the script of the recent past in Latin America. But it is a coup nonetheless, steered by the urban middle classes and ultra-right regional elites in Bolivia.
(PDF) The Bolivian Revolution at 60: Politics and Historiography
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Bolivia: Relatives rejoice as ex-president found guilty of civilian massacres
There is an Aymara proverb which artfully invokes the idea that returning to the past can trace a path into the future: ‘Qhiparu nayraru uñtas sartañani’ – ‘Looking back, we will move forward’. Over 15 years may now have passed, but former President of Bolivia, Gonzalo “Goni” Sánchez de Lozada, has now been found guilty in a landmark US trial for massacres committed in Bolivia in 2003. He was joined in the dock by Jose Carlos Sánchez Berzain, his one-time defence minister.
Evo Morales Was the Americas’ Greatest President
In October 2003, Bolivia was in the grips of revolutionary insurrection. Residents in El Alto, the neighboring city of La Paz, were blocking the supply of fuel to the capital in protest at a deal to sell off Bolivian gas to Chile on unfavorable terms. To quash the protest, the government ordered the military to fire on the unarmed civilians, killing dozens.
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