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Images from below
05/15/2008
María Eugenia Flores Castro and Patricia Quiñones Guzmán

Ubtv is not just a media and information outlet but also a space for reconstruction and making visible the faces, experiences and lives of our compañeros, so that they can feel present in the history they are making.

An interview with Raquel Gutiérrez
03/03/2008
Stefan Frank and Marcela Olivera
Bolivia

Last November, Stefan Frank and Marcela Olivera interviewed Raquel Gutierrez on her thoughts on Latin American’s current political landscape.

Updates on the election fraud
01/24/2008
James Amalemba
Kakamega, Kenya

Amalemba sends updates from the western region of Kenya on the developing situation, specifically concerning admissions of ballot fraud and what’s happening in the country’s National Assembly.

Kenya on the brink
01/09/2008
James Amalemba
Kakamega, Kenya

On Sunday December 30th, Kenya plunged into a bloody conflict that has left at least 500 dead and half a million as refugees. The catalyst was a probable stolen election that gave the presidency to the incumbent Mwai Kibaki, over the opposition party favorite Ralia Odinga. But there is much more to what’s going on in Kenya than a disputed presidential seat.

Four deaths in Sucre intensify the confrontation
11/25/2007
Luis A. Gómez
La Paz

This weekend, Bolivia has once again become a battlefield. This time, in the city of Sucre, where a rightwing offensive has left four dead. The decision of the Evo Morales government to approve a new constitution—regardless of the consequences—in the middle of counter-mobilizations has generated a new level of violence.

05/06/2008
 

Given the situation created as a result of the conduct of multinational companies in TCO territory (territory of community origin) owned by the indigenous groups which we represent as the Assembly of Guarani People of Itika Guasu (APG IG), the disputes we have with the Ministry of Hydrocarbons, as well as certain racist behaviour displayed against our brothers in the area of Cuevo, a few kilometres from Camiri, the APG IG Executive Committee and the Area and Communal Mburuvichas, pursuant to their legitimate and legal powers:

07/11/2007
National Lawyers Guild
 

From January 1-10th of this year, 14 members of the National Lawyers Guild traveled to Bolivia to speak with social movment leaders, Supreme Court Justices, government and opposition party officials and analysts among others. This is what they learned.

07/11/2007
CIDOB
 

Bolivia’s indigenous people’s historic demands and proposals are being minimalized, distorted and/or excluded from the Constituent Assembly process. Therefore, the most important indigenous organization from the eastern part of the country has decided to mobilize.