In a May 19 article on US government spying for The Intercept, Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras publish leaked documents that show the US government may have used the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to aid National Security Agency (NSA) spying on US citizens and non-citizens in foreign countries.
The leaked documents refer to 鈥渁 vibrant two-way information sharing relationship鈥 between the two intelligence agencies, implying that the DEA shares its information with the NSA to aid with non-drug-related spying.
Bolivia
Bolivian indigenous group the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyu (CONAMAQ) made headlines this year with its threats to blockade the Dakar rally when it passed through Bolivia's highlands region.
This was not the first time that the group caught the attention of the world鈥檚 media. Leaders of CONAMAQ have been regularly quoted in the media due to their outspoken criticism of the government of president Evo Morales 鈥 Bolivia's first indigenous head of state.
The articles frequently describe CONAMAQ as 鈥渢he main indigenous organisation in Bolivia's highlands鈥.
A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against industrial projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America.
Understanding their nature and significance is crucial to grasping the complexities involved in bringing about social change and how best to build solidarity with peoples鈥 struggles.
Many of the campaigns target that specific mining, oil, agribusiness or logging ventures share common elements.
Bolivia's Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera, a veteran left activist and Marxist academic, spoke at the December 13-15 congress of the Party of the European Left (PEL).
Five months ago, I was in Tarija in southern Bolivia taking part in a forum debating the political process in this country, a process we call the 鈥渄emocratic and cultural revolution鈥.
A participant asked me whether it was possible to deepen this revolution, to make it an economic and social revolution, without the participation of the working class. My immediate response was no.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales issued a government decree on October 7 that allows workers to establish 鈥渟ocial enterprises鈥 in businesses that are bankrupt, winding up, unjustifiably closed or abandoned.
These enterprises, while private, will be operated by the workers and qualify for government assistance.
Washington鈥檚 refusal to allow Venezuela's President Nicol谩s Maduro to over-fly its colony of Puerto Rico on September 19 attracted little attention in the North American and European media.
But in Latin America this arrogant gesture drew immediate outrage. It recalled the July 2 denial by four European countries 鈥 France, Italy, Spain and Portugal 鈥 of landing and refuelling rights and passage through their airspace to Bolivia鈥檚 president Evo Morales while he was returning home from a trip to Moscow.
Bolivian President Evo Morales plans to file a lawsuit against the US government for crimes against humanity, on September 20. Morales criticised the US for its intimidation tactics and fear-mongering after a plane carrying Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was blocked from entering US airspace.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has condemned the violence that has erupted in Egypt and the death of more than 750 people, and expressed solidarity with their families. Morales chaired a public ceremony in the capital and took the opportunity to condemn the violence in the Arab nation, criticising "those countries and powers that boost this kind of genocide". "We vigorously condemn and repudiate these events and send all our solidarity with peoples like Egypt fighting for democracy, for its restoration and unity of their people," Morales said.
wrote on July 7:
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has now been offered asylum in three American countries: Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. He has applied for asylum in six additional countries, according to WikiLeaks. And his chances for reaching a safe haven are growing further because of US interference in the process, according to Michael Bochenek, director of law and policy at Amnesty International.
Imagine the aircraft of the president of France being forced down in Latin America on 鈥渟uspicion鈥 that it was carrying a political refugee to safety 鈥 and not just any refugee but someone who has provided the people of the world with proof of criminal activity on an epic scale.
The Bolivian presidential plane finally left Vienna Airport July 3, at聽 5.30am聽 (Bolivian time). This after a 14 hour period during which President Evo Morales was literally kidnapped and his plane interrupted in mid-flight without explanation, putting Bolivian president鈥檚 life in danger.
Four countries 鈥 France, Spain, Italy and Portugal 鈥 revoked flight permission while the plane was taking Morales and other officials home from an energy conference in Moscow.
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