Climate Change, Water Wars, Bolivia

* Jim Shultz on "Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization" * Jim Shultz, founder of the Cochabamba-based Democracy Center, gives a snapshot of Bolivia ahead of the World Peoples' Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth. Ten years ago, Shultz helped expose the role of Bechtel in the privatization of Cochabamba's water supply. Listen/Watch/Readhttp://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/19/jim_shultz_on_dignity_and_defiance

* The Cochabamba Water Wars: Marcela Olivera Reflects on the Tenth Anniversary of the Popular Uprising Against Bechtel and the Privatization of the City's Water Supply * Ten years ago this month, the Bolivian city of Cochabamba was at the center of an epic fight over one of the city's most vital natural resources: its own water. The Water Wars occurred just months after the Battle of Seattle. The uprising against Bechtel on the streets of Cochabamba was seen as the embodiment of the international struggle against corporate globalization. Over the past week, water activists from around the world gathered in Cochabamba to mark the tenth anniversary of the Water Wars. Listen/Watch/Readhttp://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/19/the_cochabamba_water_wars_marcella_olivera

Climate Summit, This Time in Bolivia

http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2009/12/evo-to-resue.html

200 Years in Bolivia

Bolivia marks freedom bicentenary
Bolivians mark 200 years since their country's uprising against Spanish rule with President Morales decrying capitalism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/8066580.stm

Oil Equals Militancy in Bolivia

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/23-1

DEA Out of Bolivia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7704528.stm

Turmoil in Bolivia

Move to tackle Bolivian turmoil Chile calls an emergency meeting of the Union of South American Nations to help resolve the crisis in Bolivia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/7614784.stm

US Ambassador Expelled

Bolivia to expel US ambassador
President Evo Morales accuses the US ambassador to Bolivia of encouraging the break-up of the country and orders him to leave.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/7609487.stm

Honduras Shuns U.S. Influence

Shunning US, Honduras Joins ALBA
Honduras has become the latest Latin American country to join ALBA, the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas. ALBA was established as a counterweight to US-led trade agreements in Latin America. Honduran officials say founding member Venezuela has offered to double its foreign aid, dwarfing assistance from US-controlled bodies like the World Bank. The move marks a sign of further rejection of US influence in Latin America. In the 1980s, Honduras was the staging ground for the US-led effort to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Nicaragua is also an ALBA member, along with Cuba, Bolivia and Dominica.