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Referendum November 2016: Departments and Municipalities "constitutions"
MABB ©Source: Bolivian Electoral Organ (oep.org-bo)On Sunday, November 20, 2016 Bolivia will for a second time in one year go back to the ballot boxes to cast votes for yet another approval referendum...
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Conceptual Context to Bolivia's Democratic Process: Waves of Democracy
MABB ©This piece should have been published in a Routledge-sponsored "encyclopedia of democracy and democratization". But since the publication fell off the ground (I do not know why) and I had already...
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Bolivia's Democratic Evolution
MABB ©I might as well publish this other article which was also to be published in the failed Sage encyclopedia of democracy and democratization. Once again,...
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Regional Trade Groups - Where is Bolivia a Member?
MABB ©These are four images from the newly released World Trade Report from the WTO. The images show a complete list of regional trade blocks around the world. They also show where Bolivia is engaged...
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Morales' New Cabinet
MABB ©Source: ABI, Jose LirauzeSource: ABI, Jose LirauzeEvo Morales has once again renewed his government and made changes to his cabinet. He created the Ministry of Energy, while he abolished the...
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The Meaning of a Trump Government for Latin America
MABB ©On November 12, 2016 I wrote about what a #Trump government would mean for the Latin American region and Bolivia. In that post, I highlighted the many measures affecting the region that Mr. Trump...
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Sustainable Development Goals: Bolivia's Development
MABB ©After a while, I am posting something interesting. The World Bank (WB) just released its Sustainable Development Goals Report for 2017. For those of you who remember, these are the former...
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Bolivia's UN Security Countil Presidency
MABB ©On the first of June this year, Bolivia took the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the duration of one month. During this time, Bolivia will seek to continue...
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Summary: The Bolivian economy 2016 to 2017
Noted in prior assessments, Bolivia has profited in the past from the boom in commodity prices, especially higher prices in natural gas, Bolivia's most important natural resource. The country was able...
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The Re-election Issue Comes Back to Hunt Bolivia
MABB ©Re-election has been a recurring issue in Bolivian politics. It seems the MAS forces as well as the government are intent on allowing Evo Morales remain in the presidential office. The first...
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Evo Morales, Allowed to Run Again for the Presidency
MABB ©Source: ABIEvo Morales will be able to run again in 2019 for an unprecedented fourth presidential term. That is how the opposing political forces are interpreting the constitutional court's...
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Elections of Higher Post in the Judicial Branch
MABB ©On Sunday, December 3, 2017, Bolivians headed once again to the ballot boxes to elect the members of higher courts. There are four instances to elect members of: the Tribunal Agroambiental...
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Bolivia Elects New Justices of Higher Courts
On December 3, 2017, amidst a controversial decision by the country’s constitutional court that in the end allows president Morales to run for office for an unprecedented fourth consecutive time,...
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Freedom House 2018 Report on Freedom in the World and Bolivia
MABB ©Freedom in the World 2018Freedom House WebsiteWith an alarming tone titles Freedom House its latest report on freedom in the world, Democracy in Crisis. Indeed, the authors of the report paint a...
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Foreign Policy: The US's Approach to Latin America
MABB ©Many authors have engaged the title of this post mainly to analyze why is the US' policy towards Latin America not working. While critical analysis is a desirable thing to do in order to, among...
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New Cabinet 2018
MABB ©Only two changes in Evo Morales' new cabinet. Alfredo Rada, who prviously was Minister of Government and Viceminister for Social Movements Coordination, was sworn now as Minister of the...
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Bolivia's Dispute with Chile at the Hage
MABB ©The Bolivia-Chile relations have been dominated by one issue, the loss of sea access for Bolivia as a result of the pacific war of 1879 between the two countries. Ever since, Bolivia has been...
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Democracy in the World: Freedom House on Bolivia and the World
MABB ©Freedom House's Democracy in the World interactive map 2018 (freedomhouse.org)Here is a post I do almost every year. I report/monitor the yearly publication of Freedom House's Democracy in the...
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Bolivia's Foreign Trade Report 2018
MABB ©Trade in Bolivia - 2018The Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade (IBCE, for its Spanish name) has just published its latest assessment of Bolivia's trade statistics based on the National...
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Total Projects in Bolivia
MABB ©This post was taken from the Total website here. It shortly mentions the various business interests Total has in Bolivia. I thank Total for letting me place this here and point to the original...
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