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		<title>Bolivia: Quiroga Conviction Controversy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 6, ex-Bolivian president Jorge Quiroga and his lawyer responded to court conviction of Quiroga’s for defamation, slander, and libel against Union Bank.  The charges refer to Quiroga’s statements on February 6, 2009, when he denounced Union Bank as an outlet for corrupt money laundering. Quiroga’s accusations occurred shortly after Jorge O’Connor D’Arlach, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potosí Protest: Resolved or Postponed?</title>
		<link>http://ain-bolivia.org/2010/08/potosi-protest-resolved-or-postponed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 16, after 19 days of blockades and hunger strikes in urban Potosí and surrounding areas, Potosí civic leaders and MAS officials reached an agreement to end protests.  After protest leaders and Bolivian government officials met in Sucre, the Morales administration agreed to begin work on the demonstrators’ six demands.[i] While this agreement marks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schipani Dramatizes Bolivian Drug Control Efforts and MAS Official’s Role</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andres Schipani’s article, “Jessica Anne Jordan Burton: beauty queen defies cartel beasts in Bolivia’s war on cocaine,” presents an inaccurate, hyperbolic, and sexist account, which projects narrow-minded generalizations and grossly distorts the current reality of Bolivian drug policy.  Unfortunately, this erroneous portrayal has been widely reprinted and quoted in the English-speaking press.
Inaccurate or incomplete information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using selective human rights criteria to assign blame</title>
		<link>http://ain-bolivia.org/2010/05/using-selective-human-rights-criteria-to-assign-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 19:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, former Human Rights Ombudsman (Defensor del Pueblo) Waldo Albarracín told the press that the deaths of David Callisaya Mamani (16) and Fidel Mario Hernan Jiménez (19) last week in Caranavi should make President Morales ineligible to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for which he was recently nominated.  It’s a valid argument that nevertheless presents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivian Regional Elections: Voters Maintain Democratic Equilibrium</title>
		<link>http://ain-bolivia.org/2010/04/bolivian-regional-elections-voters-maintain-democratic-equilibrium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of April 4 departmental and municipal elections largely reflect previous trends in voter choices. Initial estimates indicate that the official MAS party won five out of nine governor posts: Cochabamba, La Paz, Chuquisaca, Potosi and Oruro. They may have also prevailed in Pando, although that departmental race remains too close to call before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking Myths Part II: Bolivia’s Autonomy Initiatives</title>
		<link>http://ain-bolivia.org/2010/02/debunking-myths-part-ii-bolivia%e2%80%99s-autonomy-initiatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September 2008 lowland elites led sustained protests against the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, demanding autonomy for their departments.  Yet, Morales’ MAS government never opposed grassroots autonomy initiatives. In fact, the administration held a 2006 referendum allowing lowland departments to opt for autonomy to be defined in the new Constitution. Ironically, opposition efforts to block [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking Myths: The Eastern Lowlands of Santa Cruz:  Part of an Integrated Bolivia</title>
		<link>http://ain-bolivia.org/2010/01/debunking-myths-the-eastern-lowlands-of-santa-cruz-part-of-an-integrated-bolivia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 6, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous President, easily won reelection with 64% of the vote to 26% for the right-wing candidate Manfred Reyes Villa. During his first term in office the international press and opinion makers hyped a “deep” divide between Bolivia’s eastern lowland regions and the western Andean highlands. For example, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Time for a New Relationship with Bolivia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evo Morales is the most popular President Bolivia has ever had. Last month he won re-election with 64% of the vote in spite of the fact that he is often at loggerheads with Bolivia’s upper classes that control the country’s print and television media.
Evo Morales and representatives of the U.S. government have a history of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Gallup Results on Bolivian Elections</title>
		<link>http://ain-bolivia.org/2009/08/recent-gallup-results-on-bolivian-elections-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alternative indigenous candidates polled relatively poorly.  Victor Hugo Cardenas received the highest percentage in the group (4.5%), leaving him in fifth place, Rene Joaquino (3.5%). Both came in several percentage points behind the category, “Don’t know; didn’t respond.”  It will be interesting to see how numbers change as the campaign season progresses.



Department
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Second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s Who in the Bolivian Presidential Elections: Anyone New Opposing Morales?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Candidates and Potential Candidates

Victor Hugo Cárdenas, The People (Gente): Vice President during the first Sánchez de Lozada term, Cárdenas intends to contribute to a unified opposition bloc and promote “national reunification.”[ii] Of Aymara heritage, he faces harsh criticism among indigenous populations for his perceived “sell-out” to neoliberal policies. It is interesting to note that Cárdenas, [...]]]></description>
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