CHANGE is coming for the world. Neoliberalism is crashing, Free Market Philosophies are crashing, Wall Street is crashing: All the mechanisms in place that are best at making the rich richer and the powerful more powerful and the poor poorer are collapsing. Posturing Palin is on TV telling the commoners they need to support the party of elitism, and Evo Morales is doing just the opposite.
AS YOU MAY KNOW, Bolivia’s Evo Morales is ushering in change, much like some others speak of today. Change that among other things, shifts the flow of resources so long aimed at the wealthy, aiming to make life fairer for those toiling in their shadows and for their benefit.
After months of street battles and political meetings, a new draft of the Bolivian constitution was ratified by Congress on October 21. A national referendum on whether or not to make the document official is scheduled for January 25, 2009.
“Now we have made history,” President Evo Morales told supporters in La Paz. “This process of change cannot be turned back…neoliberalism will never return to Bolivia.” [...]
Given Morales’ support across the country, this new constitution is expected to pass in the January 2009 referendum. “The public support expressed for [Morales] Monday, coming on top of the 67 percent vote of confidence he was given in the Aug. 10 recall referendum, make it clear that he is the most popular president in the last 26 years of democracy in Bolivia,” Franz Chavez reported in IPS News.
The draft constitution includes, among other things, changes to allow the redistribution of land and gas wealth to benefit the majority of the country, and give increased rights to indigenous people.
Also (and I’m sure it’s in no way related) in the news is that the USA has cut off trade with Bolivia after Evo Morales booted out the US ambassador, accused of supporting Morales’ opposition as well as kicking out DEA agents from the Coca growing region of Chapare. The corrupt Bush/Condaleeza faction claims DrugWarBlahBlah, while Evo Morales compares the punitive sanctions to the harm being wreaked on Cuba and yet tells his people not to fear. And clearly they are not.
Change, simón. It’s happening all over.
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I think that Morales is on the right path and he obviously has the support of the people. It’s an exciting time to be in Bolivia. My aunt and uncle and one of my cousins are living there right now and they couldn’t be happier.
Why is it that the more indigenous looking the leader looks the less the pinche cabrone gabuacho wants to acknowledge his or her legitimacy?
as i see it, eurocentrist standards of worth were soaked into the ground over 500 years ago and all over and since then, too, by many a sword and pike and gun and neck bleeding into la tierra, cut down under the greed of “explorers.” and it sprouts up and into the views of so many to this day. i generally call it “The Long War on the Indigenous” and it manifests even in the ugly discourse on migrants from south of the border in our current political conversation.
but its changing. slowly. we are changing it.
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