Morales heads for office

by iosaf .:. ipsiphi Thu Dec 06, 2007 07:53

his office & presidency.

that was today Bolivian time.

has nothing to do with telly time or attitude or wives. it's the thumbnail photo of a Bolivian miner with a stick of dinamite in his hand who you see every time you read an "elections" article on indymedia ireland at the top of the page. You probably don't notice him too much. He didn't get named. He's up the page. I can't tell you if he was or is or might in the future be one of the Bolivian citizenry squabbled over in the current crises in Bolivia. Perhaps you didn't even notice the current crises in Bolivia.

But that would be ok. Everyone is worried about the Bolivarian revolution without Chavez after 2012 since his local parochial neck of the woods on the block decided to include presidential tenures with over 50 other really quite worthy amendments.

I did Evo's arrival on the scene in English. you know. subtitles, dubbing & spin.

wakey uppy..,
& shut up.

You must be able to do something local you know........social centres, mary harney, corruption, pat rabitte's votes for 16 year olds, frozen embryos, feminist analysis of ratzinger, a new luas..,

leave South America alone. Right now it doesn't need your critique or needs for drama & leadership.

by iosaf Fri Dec 30, 2005 17:14

and has been accorded all the honours by Fidel Castro. Its the beginning of quite a round of visits which will see him goto Orinoco (where the womble came from) for New Year's with the family and then over here to say hola! to España, France, Belgium (where he'll say hi to the Austrians of the €U), Netherlands and then all the way to China and then back westwards to , South Africa and last of all Brazil.

Castro has not yet officially accepted an invitation to the january 22nd swearing in.

but Peru's president, Alejandro Toledo; and Argentina's Néstor Kirchner; Uruguay's Tabaré Vásquez and Paraguay's Nicanor Duarte will attend.
And Diego Maradona, and the singer Piero.
and!!!! the Nobel prize winners (peace) Rigoberta Menchú, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and José Saramago.
Also listed but no confirmed is the Nobel for Literature Gabriel García Márquez, and the urguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, the ex-president of South Africa Nelson Mandela and the french eco-socialist José Bové.

by Im Spartacus Thu Dec 29, 2005 17:48

Al Jazeera
Thursday 29 December 2005, 5:00 Makka Time, 2:00 GMT
Bolivia's socialist president-elect has announced that he and his cabinet will take a 50% pay cut so more staff can be hired for the education and health sectors.

Evo Morales, who won the recent presidential election, said late on Tuesday: "This is a democratic revolution and we will answer the Bolivian people's call.

"It's a question of sharing the country's situation among us all."

Morales, who has vowed to make multinationals pay more into the national economy and to raise Bolivia from its status as one of Latin America's poorest nations, won an 18 December election and will be inaugurated on 22 January.

The 46-year-old coca grower and Aymara Indian said his future salary of about $3600 a month would be slashed to $1800.

Cabinet ministers and all 157 members of Morales' Movement to Socialism party elected to Congress will also take a 50% pay cut, Morales said, adding that the salaries of 157 substitute congressmen - who take over the duties of lawmakers when they are absent - will be reduced to zero.

Easing businessmen's fears

Morales also seemed to gain crucial support from Bolivia's powerful business and civic leaders on Tuesday with a conciliatory meeting calculated to overcome widespread fears about the fiery former street activist's economic policies.

"I do not have a professional education, but it is important that we co-operate. You have the professional capacity, I have the social consciousness"

Evo Morales,
Bolivia's president-elect
He had been viewed with great suspicion by the Bolivian elite, but they applauded on Tuesday night after Morales said his government would create a stable legal and economic environment to attract investment and create jobs.

"I do not want to harm anybody. I do not want to expropriate or confiscate any assets," Morales told the businessmen and civic leaders of Santa Cruz, a relatively wealthy city that has sought more autonomy in the poor country.

"I want to learn from the businessmen."

Morales promised a referendum on their autonomy demands, and said he would quickly resolve a dispute over development of El Mutun, a rich iron mining project near the border with Brazil that would create 2000 jobs in the Santa Cruz area.

Public bidding for the project had been postponed, angering regional leaders, after Morales and the outgoing government jointly agreed to take more time to learn the details.

The president-to-be adopted a conciliatory tone on Tuesday night.

"I do not have a professional education, but it is important that we co-operate," said Morales, who left school after the 11th grade. "You have the professional capacity, I have the social consciousness."

Gabriel Dabdoub, the president of the region's powerful chamber of commerce, said: "He promised more than what we asked for. Let's now hope he will fulfill his promises."

by hmmmmmm Tue Dec 27, 2005 21:09

soon enough the masses of south america will have moved from the military juntas and dictatorships of the past to popular radical left wing governments and then they can stop voting.

quite where it goes from there i haven't figured out quite yet. Let ye know when i do. meanwhile Morales will be sworn in on january 22nd and his team and advisors are trying to figure out how to rewrite the contracts with the hydrocarbon corporations. quite.
_rewrite_. Now some may hip hip hooray that the left is on the ascendent, but many are the same who thought Lulu wasn't left enough, and many are those who don't care that 75% didn't vote for Chavez, and very very few have figured out how "rewriting contracts" really substitutes for "a vow to nationalise".

The image is of an unknown miner, who belonged to those indiginous bolivians who dynamited the gas fields earlier this year.

Please note that this indiginous indian miner is not the same as indiginous indian ex coca grower Evo Morales. Thats coz there are many different types of indiginous indian. Evo comes from the 25% minority group in the south. The miner came from the other northern group. And lastly please note that this miner and his comrades continued to dynamite gas fields demanding "nationalisation" after Evo morales asked them to stop. He asked them to stop, because the indiginous indian (all of them) support movement globally had mobilised to pressure the constitutionalists to _rewrite_ the contracts and of course before that allow a candidate acceptable to all parties at the table - [Outside investors, the IMF, the ONGs, US and Spanish corporations, and of course the local politicians and the RC church]
to be elected. It seemed morally desirable to find Morales in office. I do hope I'm making myself clear. I ought to be. I translated it into english.

a bolivian miner. with stick of dynamite. photographed after Mr Morales asked them to stop.