Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Franz Chávez COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, Apr 23 (IPS) – A world people’s referendum on climate change will be held in April 2011 for the earth’s peoples to decide how to address this global problem. Although it is hoped that some states will cooperate, the participation of governments will not be [...]
BOLIVIA: Save the Planet from Capitalism, Says Morales
April 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Franz Chávez COCHABAMBA, Boliviaa, Apr 21 (IPS) – Activists meeting at the people’s conference on climate change in this Bolivian city booed a message from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon but cheered at host President Evo Morales’s chant of ”planet or death!” A football stadium in Tiquipaya, in the [...]
BOLIVIA: ”Living Well” in Harmony with the Environment
April 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Franz Chávez COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, Apr 20 (IPS) – The philosophy of ”Living Well” enshrined in Bolivia’s new constitution is being put forward by the government as the basis for a global movement against consumerism, depredation of natural resources for profit, and current models of development. Presenting the results of [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Voice of Civil Society Loud and Clear in Cochabamba
April 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniela Estrada* – Tierramérica SANTIAGO, Apr 19 (IPS) – The success of the climate change conference taking place in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba will depend on how unified civil society ultimately is in its efforts to influence the United Nations climate summit, in Mexico, say Latin American [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE-BOLIVIA: In Defence of Pachamama
April 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Apr 16 (IPS) – Through their ancestral knowledge and traditions, indigenous peoples will make a unique and invaluable contribution to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which begins Monday, Apr. 19 in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba. [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: All Eyes on Cochabamba Meet
April 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Julio Godoy BONN, Apr 16 (IPS) – International negotiations towards a new regime on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, responsible for global warming, are as deadlocked today as they were last December at the Copenhagen climate summit. This is the conclusion most experts and analysts reached after some 2,000 [...]
Q&A: Eco-Friendly Farming Practices to Fight Hunger in Bolivia
April 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Franz Chávez interviews Bolivian expert in natural resource management WILFREDO QUIROZ LA PAZ, Apr 3 (IPS) – The gradual loss of traditional farming practices that preserve the land has pushed into extreme poverty small farmers in Bolivia who 20 years ago were producing surplus produce to sell at market [...]
BOLIVIA: More Women in Parliament, With Their Own Agenda
January 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Jan 20 (IPS) – An unprecedented 28 percent of seats in Bolivia’s new parliament will soon be occupied by women. Female lawmakers have already launched a battle for women to serve in half the posts in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. One [...]
BOLIVIA: Native People Take First Steps Towards Self-Government
December 22, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Dec 22 (IPS) – Indigenous people, who make up more than 60 percent of the population in Bolivia, South America’s poorest country, are taking their first steps towards self-government under their own cultural traditions that date back to pre-colonial times. Alongside the Dec. 6 presidential [...]
BOLIVIA: The Credibility of Campaign Promises
November 24, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Nov 23 (IPS) – If two candidates offer funds for the poor, but one of them is known for living up to his promises, who will the citizens vote for? That would seem to broadly describe the choice Bolivian voters are facing in [...]
