Category Archives: All About Evo

It’s not just Evo or Chavecito…

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Sabina Becker

…it’s all of Mercosur rejecting that draconian, disgusting European “Return Statute”–you know, the one that deprives undocumented immigrants of all legal rights, including recourse to an attorney before the country they’re in decides to boot them out–after a prison stay … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Lugo comes to Venezuela

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Sabina Becker

And gets a hug-ito from Chavecito at a religious ceremony at Caricuao in his honor:And if the speech he gave in Ecuador here is any indication, he will work well with the rest for integration:BTW, El Ecuadorable and Evo are … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Two nice “just because” shots

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Do I need an excuse to post pictures of these guys?All right, my reason for posting this one of Evo is “Because it’s nice…”And my reason for posting this one of Chavecito is “Because I like it!”

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Evo opens a hospital

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Sabina Becker

With a little help from Cuba and Venezuela, the town of Viacha, 64 km away from La Paz, now has a shiny new hospital.

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Justin Delacour kicks the Dissociated Press’s ass

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Sabina Becker

‘Bout time someone did! And who better than a Latin America scholar, who knows how important it is to work with all the facts, the accurate facts, and not just whatever bullshit is convenient to the State Dept., Big Bidness, … Continue reading →

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OMG, the AP gets Bolivia RIGHT for a change…

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Sabina Becker

It must be a slow news day for them. Otherwise, I can’t imagine how this passed muster. Thousands of demonstrators marched on the U.S. Embassy Monday to demand that Washington extradite a former Bolivian defense minister who directed a military … Continue reading →

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Evo makes me giggle sometimes

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Sabina Becker

He’d make you giggle too, if you heard him say things like this: The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is concerned because he sees his Peruvian colleague, Alan Garcia, as “very fat and not much of an anti-imperialist”, as he … Continue reading →

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AP still clueless about Bolivia

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Sabina Becker

They still think this is about autonomy and “states’ rights”. Someone kindly clue them in, please. Oh wait, I spoke too soon…here’s Evo: Morales has dismissed all three referendums as illegal “surveys” by conservative opposition groups hoping to cripple his … Continue reading →

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“Autonomous” fascism in Bolivia

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Aporrea reports: Last Saturday, far-right groups attacked, punched and battered a group of peasants who had come to a stadium in the city of Sucre, where president Evo Morales was to deliver 50 ambulances and several thousand homes to local … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Some summit that was in Peru

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

And for some reason, I found a lot of funny pix from it…and for some reason even stranger, most of the funniest ones had Evo in them. In some funny context or other. Like this one, in which he’s chatting … Continue reading →