Category Archives: All About Evo

Evo gets fouled!

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Gotta love those weekend warrior types. Even the president of Bolivia is one: Bolivian President Evo Morales has suffered a broken nose after being fouled by a goalkeeper during an indoor football match. The president’s team was playing a local … Continue reading →

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Evo shows his cojones

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Get your minds out of the gutter, people. He hasn’t turned into a flasher. But he has had a flash of serious statesmanly inspiration: Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for change within the country’s Catholic Church, accusing it of … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Cool shades, dude…

Posted on July 14, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Actually, they’re safety glasses. Chavecito’s been a very busy boy lately, inaugurating a new Venezuela-Colombia gas pipeline. Here he is watching the first weld going down.

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Evo’s constitutional mandate widens

Posted on July 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Prensa Latina has the goods: After 99.7 percent votes counted, the MAS won 139 of 255 Assembly seats with support from opposition pillars like Santa Cruz and Tarija provinces. The MAS could run up to 151 seats counting 12 from … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Another salute!

Posted on July 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

This one’s in honor of Venezuela’s independence day, July 5. Chavecito’s a smash in his new sash. (Note the horse on the coat of arms; it’s now racing to the left. Story here.)

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Evo gets a mandate

Posted on July 4, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Get your dirty minds out of the gutter, wingnuts. It’s not a MAN DATE. This is what it’s really about: Bolivian President Evo Morales’ leftist party appears to have won a narrow majority in a new assembly picked to rewrite … Continue reading →

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Evil wicked Cuba sets example again (twice!)

Posted on July 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Don’t you hate it when things like this happen? Uruguay’s Emergency Plan (PANES) Coordinator, Bertha Sanseverino, announced that the country will introduce Cuba’s Literacy Plan, currently applied in many parts of the world. “Just as Venezuela is supporting us in … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Sartorial splendor!

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Sabina Becker

It doesn’t get much snazzier than this:Evo and Hugo in indigenous Bolivian threads. Molto bello!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Just in time for Cinco de Mayo

Posted on May 5, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And while this didn’t happen in Mexico, there were plenty of amigos:Left to right: Presidents Nestor Kirchner (Argentina), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva (Brazil), and Hugo Chavez (Venezuela). Chavecito just did himself proud yet again, by brokering … Continue reading →

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Here come the heroes, just in time for May Day!

Posted on May 1, 2006 by Sabina Becker

You want cojones? You got ’em… Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has signed a decree placing his country’s energy industry under state control. In a May Day speech, he said foreign energy firms must agree to channel all their sales through … Continue reading →

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