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<!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Wednesday, October 1, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For your information, and also with special respect to the debate that took place in this space recently about the presence of heads of government at the Social Fora – and which was also tabled for discussion at the recent meeting of the WSF International Council in Copenhagen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We are still awaiting the minutes of that meeting, which we will post as soon as they come in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But in the meanwhile, if anyone receiving this posting was there and would like to inform us of the decision on this and related issues, please do so !<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">English translation given below.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>At the same time, and given what is happening today in Bolivia – under the nose of the bail-out crisis in the US, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, etc - please also definitely ‘read’ this event in broader political terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>For those who are not familiar with what’s going on in Bolivia at the moment – in short, the empire is striking back, viciously – I have pasted on some information below.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>JS<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">fwd<o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div> <!--EndFragment--> <div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Directora FEDAEPS <<a href="mailto:directora@fedaeps.org">directora@fedaeps.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> October 1 2008 4:38:00 AM GMT+05:30</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">destinatarios-no-revelados:;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>INVITACION JORNADA SOLIDARIDAD BOLIVIA EN III FSA</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <pre><big><big><b>JORNADA CONTINENTAL DE SOLIDARIDAD CON BOLIVIA
Y EL PRESIDENTE EVO MORALES
Acto político conexo al III Foro Social Américas
Con la presencia del Presidente Evo Morales
Jueves 9 de octubre de 2008 de 14h00 a 17h00
Plaza de los Martires, Universidad San Carlos, Guatemala
Convocan: Asamblea de Movimientos Sociales Américas, FEDAEPS, REMTE,
CLOC-Vía Campesina, Marcha Mundial de las Mujeres, Coordinadora Andina
de Organizaciones Indígenas, Movimento Sem Terra, CLACSO, Jubileo Sur,
Minga Informativa de los Movimientos Sociales, GALFISA, Diálogo Sur/Sur
LGBT, Centro Martín Luther King, Alianza Social Continental, Fundación Solón, CONIC y Waqib' Kej
Seguido de un acto cultural de celebración de los cincuenta años de
socialismo en Cuba.</b></big></big></pre> </blockquote></div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>In English :<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">CONTINENTAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH BOLIVIA<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And President Evo Morales<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Political event related to the Americas Social Forum III<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">With the presence of President Evo Morales<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thursday October 9, 2008 from 14h00 to 17h00<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Plaza de los Martires, Universidad San Carlos, Guatemala<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Convenors: Asamblea de Movimientos Sociales Américas, FEDAEPS, REMTE, CLOC-Vía Campesina, Marcha Mundial de las Mujeres, Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas, Movimento Sem Terra, CLACSO, Jubileo Sur, Minga Informativa de los Movimientos Sociales, GALFISA, Diálogo Sur/Sur LGBT, Centro Martín Luther King, Alianza Social Continental, Fundación Solón, CONIC y Waqib' Kej</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Followed by a cultural event celebrating the fifty years of socialism in Cuba.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> <!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">__________<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Pasted in by JS of CACIM :<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica-Bold;mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#0C13D7; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Bill Quimby <<a href="mailto:wquimby@ECR.NET">wquimby@ECR.NET</a>></span><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica-Bold;mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#0C13D7; mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>September 27 2008 9:16:52 PM GMT+05:30</span><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica-Bold;mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#0C13D7; mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><a href="mailto:SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE">SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE</a></span><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica-Bold;mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><b>Subject: <span style="color:#0C13D7">Re: Bolivia</span></b></span><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica-Bold;mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#0C13D7; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">International forum for discussion and information on social movements <<a href="mailto:SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE">SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE</a>></span><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">This September 20 letter to Condoleeza Rice from a group of Latin American<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">experts may help summarize the events and fill in the picture. Note that it is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">written from a "left academic" perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">- Bill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">ABIDING IN BOLIVIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Saturday, September 20, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">90 experts on Bolivia and Latin America ask State Dept. to reveal Bolivia funding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><a href="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2008/09/90-experts-on-bolivia-and-latin-america.html">http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2008/09/90-experts-on-bolivia-and-latin-america.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">To Dr. Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Cc: Phillip Goldberg, U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Henrietta Fore, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Representative Eliot Engel, Chair, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">of Foreign Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Senator John McCain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Senator Barack Obama<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Dear Dr. Rice,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">We are writing out of deep concern over recent events in Bolivia that have left dozens dead and cost millions of dollars in lost revenue to the Bolivian government and the Bolivian people. We are especially concerned that the United States government, by its own admission, is supporting opposition groups and individuals in Bolivia that have been involved in the recent whole-scale destruction, violence, and killings, above all in the departments of Santa Cruz, Pando, and Chuquisaca.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Since the United States government refuses to disclose many of the recipients of its funding and support, there is currently no way to determine the degree to which this support is helping people involved in violence, sabotage, and other extra-legal means to destabilize the government of Bolivia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Yet since the democratic election of Evo Morales in December 2005, the U.S. government has sent millions of dollars in aid to departmental prefects and municipal governments in Bolivia. In 2004, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) opened an "Office of Transition Initiatives" (OTI) in Bolivia, which provided some $11 million in funds to "build on its activities designed to enhance the capacity of departmental governments."[1]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The OTI in Bolivia sought to "[build] the capacity of prefect-led departmental governments to help them better respond to the constituencies they govern," and even brought departmental governors to the U.S. to meet with state governors.[2] Some of these same departmental governments later launched organized campaigns to push for "autonomy" and to oppose through violent and undemocratic means the Morales government and its popular reforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">According to the OTI, it ceased operations in Bolivia about a year ago; however some of its activities were then taken up by USAID, which refuses to disclose some of its recipients and programs. USAID spent $89 million in Bolivia last year. This is a significant sum relative to the size of Bolivia's economy; proportionally in the U.S. economy it would be equivalent to about $100 billion, or close to what the United States is currently spending on military operations in Iraq.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">U.S. taxpayers, as well as the Bolivian government and people, have a right to know what U.S. funds are supporting in Bolivia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">On August 10, a national recall referendum was held in which Bolivian voters had the opportunity to vote on whether the President, the Vice-President, and eight of nine departmental prefects should continue in office. President Evo Morales and Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera won with more than 67 percent of the vote, much more than President Morales' original electoral victory in 2005, which had the largest margin in the country's electoral history.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The recent opposition violence appears to be an organized response to this mandate, attempting to use extra-legal means to win what the opposition could not gain at the ballot box. This includes the National Democratic Council (CONALDE), composed of "five provincial governors, business associations, conservative civic groups, and legislators of the rightwing Podemos party led by former president Jorge Quiroga."[3]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Perhaps most alarming is the recent evidence of close collusion and cooperation between the departmental governments and violent groups such as the UJC (Unión Juventud Cruceña, or Union of Santa Cruz Youth) and the Santa Cruz Civic Committee. As a new campaign of violence began following the August 10 recall referendum, a Reuters journalist interviewing Santa Cruz opposition leader and prominent businessman Branko Marinkovic witnessed UJC members going into Marinkovic's office and coming out with baseball bats.[4] Even more startling is evidence that the events of the past two weeks are the result of a deliberate decision by the opposition coalition CONALDE to pursue a campaign of violence. Media reports describe how opposition Podemos legislators were ejected from an early September CONALDE meeting after voicing opposition to the violent methods under discussion.[5]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">News articles in the past week further noted the support from some departmental prefects and other regional government officials' for the violence. "The conservative governors are … encouraging the protesters in their actions," Agence France Presse reported, adding that, "The opposition coalition, which also includes town mayors, have focused their attention on the main source of Bolivia's income: the natural gas fields that lie in their eastern half of the country," and "Militants linked to the opposition group set up road blocks to add pressure to the governors' demands for more control over gas revenues." [6]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The racist nature of the UJC and other hate groups is well known and documented. These groups have focused their attacks mostly on indigenous MAS (governing party) supporters. In May, for example, members of the "Interinstitutional Committee," composed of civic and local leaders, and other youth militants forcibly marched indigenous and peasant supporters of President Morales to the city center of Sucre (Chuquisaca), beat them, stripped them of clothing, and forced them to chant anti-Morales slogans while berating them with racist taunts.[7]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">As you know, at least 15 people have been killed in the past several days in Pando alone - the great majority of them Bolivian peasants and farmers - in what eyewitnesses describe as a massacre by assassins with machine guns. The Bolivian government has arrested Pando prefect Leopoldo Fernández in connection with the killings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">This violence, which has been accompanied by sabotage that has caused extensive economic damage, is utterly deplorable, and should be condemned from every quarter. Yet the U.S. government response has been weak. Before the extent of the massacre was known, and before the Bolivian government had declared U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg to be persona non grata, many had already been killed and economic damage done. Yet as of September 12, according to its website, the U.S. State Department had said only that it regrets the expulsion of Ambassador Goldberg and that this "reflects the weakness and desperation [by President Evo Morales]" and "an inability to communicate effectively internationally in order to build international support," and suggested that the Bolivian government is not improving the well-being of its citizens.[8]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The State Department website shows no statement between May 5, 2008 and September 11, 2008,[9] indicating that the State Department failed to condemn the violence in recent months, and also failed to congratulate President Evo Morales on his overwhelming victory in the August 10 referendum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">We call on the U.S. government to turn a new page in its relations with Latin America by clearly and unequivocally condemning the violent, destructive and anti-democratic means employed by members of Bolivia's pro-"autonomy" opposition. Most importantly, Washington must also disclose its funding for groups inside Bolivia - through USAID and other agencies - and reveal the names of the recipients of these funds. The U.S. government must cease any and all support - financial or otherwise - to any group or person in Bolivia and other Latin American countries that engages in violent, destructive, terrorist, or anti-democratic activities such as we have witnessed with great shock and sadness in the past weeks in Bolivia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Ben Achtenberg, Refuge Media Project, Boston, MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Emily Achtenberg, Housing Policy & Development Consultant, Boston MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Robert Albro, Assistant Professor of Antrhpology, School of International Service, American University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Juan Manuel Arbona, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Byrna Aronson, Boston, MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Teo Ballvé, Journalist, former editor of North American Congress on Latin America Report on the Americas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Ericka Beckman, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Charles Bergquist, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">John Beverley, Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Michelle Bigenho, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hampshire College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Lina Britto, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Beverlee Bruce, Ph.D., Program Associate, Planning Alternatives for Change, New York City<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Davis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">JoaquÃn Chavez, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Mike Davis, Distinguished Professor of Non-Fiction, University of California-Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Nicole Dettmann-Quisbert, Sudbury, MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Luis Duno-Gottberg, Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Rice University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Duke University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Nicole Fabricant, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Samuel Farber, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Brooklyn College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Sujatha Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Queens College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Lesley Gill, Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Marcial Godoy-Anativia, Associate Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Daniel Goldstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Manu Goswami, Associate Professor of History, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Greg Grandin, Professor of History, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Bret Gustafson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Washington University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Charles R. Hale, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas-Austin, former president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Jack Hammond, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Daniel Hellinger, Professor of Political Science, Webster University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Eric Hershberg, President, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Doug Hertzler, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Eastern Mennonite University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Kathryn Hicks, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Memphis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Connie Hogarth, Center for Social Action, Manhattanville College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Forrest Hylton, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Rachel Kahn-Hunt, Professor Emerita of Sociology, San Francisco State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Caren Kaplan, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, University of California-Davis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; 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Ranney, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Policy, University of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Illinois-Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Gerardo Renique, Associate Professor of History, City College-CUNY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Marcus Rediker, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Christina Rojas, Director, Program for International Studies, Carleton University, Montreal, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Nancy Romer, Brooklyn College & Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, AFT #2334<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Fred Rosen, Senior Analyst, North American Congress on Latin America<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Karen B. 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Ruymaker, Oakland, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Tamara Lea Spira, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Consciousness, University of California-Santa Cruz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Kent Spriggs, Spriggs Law Firm, Tallahassee, FL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Diana Steinberg, Boston, MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Marcia Stephenson, Associate Professor of Spanish, Purdue University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Steve Striffler, Zemurray Chair in Latin American Studies, University of New Orleans<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California-Berkeley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Sinclair Thomson, Associate Professor of History, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Marilyn Young, Professor of History, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">George Yudice, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, American Studies, and Latin American Studies, University of Miami<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Jeffrey R. Webber, Ph. D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">John Womack, Robert Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Harvard University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Patricia A. Wright, Retired Urban Scholar, University of Illinois-Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Carol Zuckerman, MD, Boston, MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Rosanna Zuckerman, Boston, MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[1] USAID/OTI Bolivia Field Report, July - September 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[2] Ibid.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[3] Franz Chávez, "BOLIVIA: Divisions Emerge in Opposition Strategy."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Inter Press Service. September 4, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[4] Eduardo Garcia, "Foes of Morales stage general strike in Bolivia."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Reuters. August 19, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Found at <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1925747220080819">http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1925747220080819</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[5] Franz Chávez, "BOLIVIA: Divisions Emerge in Opposition Strategy."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Inter Press Service. September 4, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[6] Agence France Presse, "Bolivia orders US ambassador out, warns of civil<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">war." September 11, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[7] Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Press Release, "IACHR Deplores<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Violence In Bolivia And Urges Punishment Of Those Responsible." N° 22/08. May<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">29, 2008. Accessed at <a href="http://www.cidh.org/Comunicados/English/2008/22.08eng.htm">http://www.cidh.org/Comunicados/English/2008/22.08eng.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">on September 16, 2008, 5:52pm EST.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[8] U.S. Department of State Press Statement, "Expulsion of U.S. Ambassadors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">to Venezuela and Bolivia." September 12, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Accessed at <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2008/sept/109534.htm">http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2008/sept/109534.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">on September 16, 2008, 4:46pm EST.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[9] U.S. Department of State website: Bolivia - Releases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Accessed at <a href="http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/bl/c7579.htm">http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/bl/c7579.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">on September 16, 2008,4:35pm EST.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0C13D7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Posted by El Duderino at 6:33 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">______________________________</span></span></font><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jai Sen<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><a href="mailto:jai.sen@cacim.ne">jai.sen@cacim.ne</a></span></font></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">t<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">CACIM, A-3 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024, India<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">www.cacim.net</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ph : +91-11-4155 1521, 4155 0963 - PLEASE NOTE NEW SECOND NUMBER !<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Check out</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the OpenSpaceForum @ <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">www.openspaceforum.net</span></font></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Subscribe to WSFDiscuss</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB">, an open and unmoderated forum on the World Social Forum and on related social and political movements and issues. 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