MAS Party re-selects fmr Miss Bolivia Jessica Jordan as candidate for governor of Beni in 2013 bit.ly/Q5clvZ 1 day ago<http://twitter.com/CarwilJ/statuses/246233531011964929>
43% of Bolivian Glaciers Gone<http://www.boliviaweekly.com/43-of-bolivian-glaciers-gone/3017/> 5 September 2012 The Hydrological and Hydrology University in Bolivia has completed a study of 400 glaciers in the country and determined that they have retreated by 43% because of climate change since 1980. The study was based on satellite images in collaboration with the National Climate Change Program. Principle investigator Edson Ramírez studied glaciers of less that [...] *COB announces general strike for Friday 14th* SUPPORT this measure was taken over in support to miners who receive their salaries from state-owned mines, who are competing with miners under cooperatives for the Rosario site in Colquiri mine, La Paz. <http://bolivianthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/2012-09-13-07-53-18-am.jpg>The expanded national meeting carried out today [Sep 11] by the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) announced that it convenes to a 24-hour strike for Friday September 14 in support to miners who work for the State, of the Colquiri mine, in La Paz, according to Freddy Sanchez, Secretary of the Trade Union Federation of miners Bolivia workers (FSTMB), as informed to Paginasiete.bo. By consensus, was decided to make an strike with demonstrations for Friday in all Bolivia, calling for the reversal of all the Colquiri mine to the State. If the Government does not meet this request, the following week, [we will] take other measures according to what it may be, said Sanchez. Strike is general and not only the mining sector but all sectors affiliated to the COB, he stressed. At the same meeting, the COB was determined to ask the Government to approve a short law to prevent mine take overs. Currently, the control of the mine is in charge of the Trade Union of workers and the State-owned company. All entry levels to the mine are mined [with dynamite] and if the cooperative miners want to enter. We are firm in our position of reverting [the control of the] mine. Invite cooperative miners to pass to the wage sector, so that they have health insurance of old age and compensation, said Sanchez. http://www.paginasiete.bo/2012-09-12/Nacional/Destacados/COB-anuncia-paro-general-para-el.aspx http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/14/bolivia-miners-dispute-holds-la-paz-under-siege/ Bolivia: Miners' Dispute Holds La Paz Under Siege <http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/14/bolivia-miners-dispute-holds-la-paz-under-siege/> Posted 14 September 2012 <http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/14/> 6:00 GMT <http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/pablo-andres-rivero/>Written byPablo Andres Rivero <http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/pablo-andres-rivero/> Countries Bolivia<http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/latin-america/bolivia/> Topics Labor <http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/labor/>, Protest<http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/protest/>, Politics <http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/politics/>, Economics & Business <http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/economics-business/>, Citizen Media <http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/citizen-media/> Languages Spanish <http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/languages/spanish/>, English<http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/languages/english/> Hundreds of miners from private cooperatives are continuing to block the main access roads to La Paz, Bolivia's seat of Government. The siege was sparked by a dispute between private cooperative miners from the La Paz Departmental Federation of Mining Cooperatives (Fedecomin in Spanish) and employed miners from the state-run Bolivian Mining Corporation (Comibol in Spanish). Both rival groups are seeking to take control of the zinc and tin Colquiri mine, nationalised from Glencore International<http://www.mining-journal.com/production-and-markets/bolivia-nationalises-glencores-colquiri> by Bolivias government in June 2012. The issue arises from Supreme Decree 1337, signed by President Evo Morales, which guarantees the control of operating activities in the northern part of the mine Colquiri, more precisely the Rosario vein. The conflict began on the ground after the delimitation of operation areas: Colquiri unionised miners, who are meant to operate in the south, refuse to give the cooperative miners participation. Moreover, unionised miners are blocking the access to the Colquiri mine, 92 miles (149 kilometers) from La Paz. The government had set up negotiation talks between the rival factions, and it was agreed that the siege would be lifted during the evening of Wednesday, September 12; however, the blockades remain and the miners have issued further threats<http://www.erbol.com.bo/noticia.php?identificador=2147483963873>[es]. Private cooperative miners have been close allies of the government led by left-wing President Evo Morales. This group has declared that the unionised miners, who are also members of the Bolivian Workers' Center (COB<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Workers%27_Center>in Spanish), are irreconcilable enemies'. The blog<http://videourgente-sc.blogspot.com/2012/09/mineros-cooperativistas-vs-mineros.html> [es] Videourgente (urgent video) posts a video showing demonstrations by unionised miners in La Paz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BVPzf4s84z8 According to the Americas Quarterly blog<http://www.americasquarterly.org/bolivian-miners-blockade-roads-to-la-paz> : President Morales has asked the warring factions to respect each others rights: Both sectors have constitutional rights and have an obligation to understand each other and work together to exploit the natural resources that are so important for Bolivians. However, Eduardo Bowles states<http://eduardobowles.blogspot.com/2012/09/el-estado-se-nos-muere.html> [es] in his blog that both miners groups are corroding the mining industry and affecting the State's interests: En este momento, ambos grupos de mineros están haciendo lo que todos los sectores sociales han hecho en la última década: desafiar la autoridad, imponer el principio del caos, violentar las leyes y seguir minando las posibilidades de construir un Estado en Bolivia. La única diferencia es que en esta ocasión ha sido el propio Estado Plurinacional el impulsor de su propia desaparición. At this point, both groups of miners are doing what all social movements have done in the last decade: defying authority, imposing the principle of chaos, violating the laws and continuing to undermine the possibilities of building a State in Bolivia. The only difference is that this time the Plurinational State itself has been the driver of its own demise. Note: Read more about mining in Bolivia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Bolivia> . [image: Creative Commons License] <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> -------------------- Todos a las marchas de la COB: ¡el pueblo ha decidido, Colquiri es del Estado!<http://bolivia.elmilitante.org/bolivia-topmenu-27/509-todos-a-las-marchas-de-la-cob-iel-pueblo-ha-decidido-colquiri-es-del-estado.html> Escrito por El Militante Jueves 13 de Septiembre de 2012 11:24 Declaración de la CMI en apoyo a la movilización nacional por la nacionalización de Colquiri convocada por la COB. ¡Movilización nacional en defensa de Colquiri!<http://bolivia.elmilitante.org/el-militante-periodico-topmenu-39/508-imovilizacion-nacional-en-defensa-de-colquiri.html> Escrito por El Militante Miércoles 05 de Septiembre de 2012 16:06 La nacionalización de Colquiri está en peligro. Como muestra la infografía de La Razón la promulgación del DS 1337 del 29 de agosto, acordado con[image: veta rosario] el sector cooperativo de manera unilateral, concede a la minoría de mineros afiliados a la Cooperativa 26 de Febrero la parte mayor del yacimiento de Colquiri. La mediación con los intereses de los cooperativistas pone en peligro la sustentabilidad económica del yacimiento estatal y contraviene a una decisión asumida y apoyada por el pueblo de Colquiri y la clase trabajadora en su conjunto. En Colquiri se juega la defensa de políticas públicas de manejo de los recursos, por esto la COB debe llamar a la movilización nacional. En defensa de la lucha<http://bolivia.elmilitante.org/el-militante-periodico-topmenu-39/507-en-defensa-de-la-lucha.html> Escrito por El Militante Miércoles 05 de Septiembre de 2012 15:59 María Cecilia Chacón, ex Ministra de Defensa que hace 11 meses renunció a su cargo tras la violenta represión de la marcha de la CIDOB en[image: Chacon] Chaparina, ha manifestado su malestar por el nombramiento de Sacha Llorenti al cargo de Embajador de Bolivia ante la ONU en una significativa nota, titulada en defensa de la esperanza<http://revistalamalapalabra.blogspot.se/2012/09/cecilia-chacon-los-errores-no-se.html> publicada en las redes sociales. Antes que una posición política, la compañera Chacón ha expresado un estado de ánimo siempre más difuso y esta es la principal virtud de su mensaje. 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