Bolivia ratifies new Constitution

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UPI

Bolivia ratifies new Constitution
Published: March 1, 2009 at 1:46 PM


LA PAZ, Bolivia, March 1 (UPI) -- Bolivian voters Sunday approved a new Constitution that will empower the nation's Indians and strengthen President Evo Morales, political analysts say.

Preliminary counts showed the referendum passed easily with about 60 percent of voters approving the overhaul of a political system Morales, an Indian, blamed for centuries of indigenous subjugation, The Latin American Post reported.

The new Constitution broadens definitions of property to include communal ownership, lets Indians approve corporal punishment under their own legal systems and reaffirms state control over Bolivia's rich natural gas reserves.

"We are finally recapturing our dignity," said Maria Laure, 38, a soap saleswoman who voted for the new Constitution.


Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/01/Bolivia_ratifies_new_Constitution/UPI-29981235933210/

[Warpy]

1. Morales has already outlived 90% of his predecessors

since Bolivia was infamous for having 2 revolutions in a single month during its more unstable times.

This is one of the unintended consequences of the last administration's lust for imperial warfare: governments in this hemisphere have been allowed to move left without much interference no matter how loudly the colonial oligarchies have screamed "communism!" Having the US bogged down in two wars on the other side of the planet has been a good thing for the rest of the hemisphere.

[Greyhound]

12. You know, that's a really good point. The village idiot so fucked up the military with his vanity

wars, that there was nothing left to prop up the parasites in this hemisphere. Now we are seeing America 3.0 emerging to our south.

[IndianaGreen]

2. This is the same path followed by the Bolivarian revolution, and it is the path the US must follow

to break the backs of the American ruling class. Remember that in US law, corporations have more rights than an individual.

[lsewpershad]

4. Totally agree

The ruling class of America feels it must dominate the world that is why it makes unholy alliances with dictators and facist.

[tanngrisnir3]

8. No, corporations have the same rights as an individual.

Which, still, is a miscarriage of justice, in my opinion.

[Greyhound]

13. Actually, in America corporations have superior rights to the individual.

An individual can be incarcerated and/or made to pay for the damage (s)he causes, corporations cannot be incarcerated and our courts protect them from paying for the damage they do.

[bitchkitty]

16. Hallelujah, compadre!

I'm hoping, praying, dreaming, envisioning - that I'll see something like it before I leave this side of life!

[bitchkitty]

3. Viva Morales!

I'm going to go celebrate with an extra cup of coffee!

[Ken Burch]

6. AMA KELA!

Victory to the Bolivian people and victory to the cause of justice.

Let's hope the administration WE elected will do the right thing and end the confrontational relationship Augustus Chimpus had with Bolivia and Venezuela.

[bitchkitty]

11. Augustus Chimpus, I love it!

Augustus Bunnypantus?

[iandhr]

5. I thought that this happened a few months ago

[Judi Lynn]

7. I would imagine this would be the formalization, last step of the referendum

which was held on a recent Sunday and passed by an enormous majority.

I'll keep my eyes open and add anything I see on it.

[Demeter]

9. I Cannot Imagine Why The Moderator Rejected This from LBN

This is important, timely, and not at all in the MSM. It has no blondes, no missing females, but still...

[bitchkitty]

10. I'm just sayin...

Why was this moved to the Latin American forum? It's certainly LA news, but it's not a hit piece so it gets moved here from LBN?

Am I being paranoid?

[Judi Lynn]

14. I wonder why threads like this get moved, as well, when Bush was taking OUR tax dollars,

using them to destabilize Morales, organize coups against him, flying members of the opposition to Washington, D.C. to meet privately with State Department people (the Bolivian population caught one of them doing this, and spread the news) organizing protests, and sending the ambassador out after midnight to meet privately with the racist fascist opposition and their shock troops, the same people who massacred indigenous Bolivian protesters at Pando, near the border with Brazil, encourage and assisting the opposition in its attempts to create havoc for Morales and his party in the Congress, and secede from the country altogether, taking control of all the natural gas and oil, and food production away from the rest of the country, and setting themselves up in business to keep all the profit for themselves, etc., etc., etc.

This was OUR tax dollars we are forced to pay, and _Bush was spending them to overthrow a beloved (by the vast majority of the Bolivian people) and historically important President, and we still don't know if our new President is going to chart a new, clean path to take with Bolivia, or continue along the dark, murderous path the U.S. has followed since it has sustained utterly filthy, murderous Presidents, some assisted in coups planned in Washington, D.C., who conducted genocidal programs which stole land from indigenous people and handed it over for NOTHING, for free, to imported settlers from South Africa and Rhodesia, etc., in a plan to create a "White Bolivia," like Hugo Banzer.

The U.S. has also supported the cocaine-trafficking right-winger {resident who employed Nazi "Butcher of Lyon" Klaus Barbie.

The U.S. is utterly, completely tied up in Bolivian interior, domestic politics, using OUR MONEY. We are most clearly in a position to need to know what the #### is going on there.

Thank you. *burp* (Overlook my rabid, heartfelt outburst.)

[Greyhound]

15. Seconded with a kick. n/t