Agencia Boliviana de Informacion
http://abi.bo/index.php?i=noticias_texto_paleta&j=20090321101710&l=200812210001
Oruro, 21 mar (ABI).- Después de haber cumplido la primera meta de sacar de la oscuridad a más de 800 mil iletrados y declarar a Bolivia libre de analfabetismo, el Gobierno de este país iniciará el domingo un aguerrido programa de post alfabetización denominado "Yo sí puedo seguir".
El plan arrancará en la población de Chipaya, en el agreste altiplano boliviano y cuna de una de las culturas más antiguas del continente, a unos 388 kilómetros al sur de La Paz.
El plan está dirigido a los más de 800 mil iletrados alfabetizados con el método cubano "Yo sí puedo" y a todas las personas mayores de 15 años que no concluyeron la primaria, que recibirán los espacios de conocimiento en materias de ciencias naturales, matemáticas, lenguaje, historia y geografía, en su idioma nativo, para acreditar a futuro su formación universitaria, según un boletín de prensa del Ministerio de Educación que lidera el programa.
"En esta segunda fase tenemos que trabajar todos juntos para alcanzar un nivel de educación equivalente inicialmente a quinto de primaria", pidió por su parte Benito Ayma director del programa quien confirmó la asistencia al acto de inauguración del presidente Evo Morales y otros invitados especiales, entre los cuales estarán miembros de la Unesco.
Ayma recordó que el pasado 20 de diciembre Bolivia fue declarada como el tercer país de Latinoamérica libre de analfabetismo, después de Cuba y Venezuela, logrando la meta de 823.256 alfabetizados en todo el país y aseguró que la campaña continuará en un proceso destinado a erradicar el analfabetismo absoluto y funcional.
En el municipio orureño de Chipaya se instalarán 18 puntos de enseñanza y en todo el país 3.000 puntos que serán ubicados de manera simultánea en los 327 municipios.
De acuerdo con la información del Programa de Post Alfabetización, en La Paz se instalarán 450 puntos, en Oruro 350, en Potosí 400, Cochabamba 450, Tarija 200, Chuquisaca 350, Santa Cruz 450, Beni 200 y en Pando 100.
Cada punto funcionará con 15 participantes: maestros, estudiantes de las normales, pedagogos, profesionales, que fueron capacitados en el manejo pedagógico y metodológico, serán los encargados de dar las asignaturas dentro de este programa.
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Saturday, 21 March 2009
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
A final de mes (y de año) otra de resumen
Resulta que empezamos el mes con los últimos ramalazos de aquella masacre en Porvenir, Pando, ocurrida un 11 de septiembre y que la prensa internacional ha hecho muy poco por destacar. Decía en este blog el 4 de diciembre que por fin la comisión investigadora de aquellos hechos luctuosos nominada por UNASUR y liderada por el abogado argentino Rodolfo Mattarollo le hacia entrega de su informe al presidente. En el informe se decía claramente lo que todos sabíamos y la oposición boliviana de ultraderecha se negaba a reconocer. En breve, no existió enfrentamiento entre dos grupos armados sino una cacería de campesinos indígenas por parte de grupos cívicos de Pando ligados y organizados por la prefectura liderada por Leopoldo Fernández. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/latin_america/newsid_7763000/7763930.stm
Es ésta la noticia del mes y del año, pues los acontecimientos de septiembre y la violencia desatada en el oriente boliviano representan sin ninguna duda el momento más oscuro de la gestión de Evo Morales y el peor ejemplo de violencia desde el octubre negro del 2003 que se denominó como ‘la guerra del gas’. La tan rumoreada guerra civil no se llegó a producir sino que la paciencia interminable del gobierno y la intervención de UNASUR, así como la expulsión del país del embajador estadounidense Philip Goldberg que alentaba a la oposición, tuvieron como resultado una pacificación rápida de las poblaciones afectadas y un fracaso rotundo de la estrategia golpista de la ultraderecha de la que aún no se ha restablecido.
La segunda noticia de importancia este mes ha sido el trabajo de la justicia boliviana que por fin ha empezado a arrestar a aquellos que instigaron y participaron en la violencia organizada para intentar derrocar al gobierno más popular de la historia republicana del país. Por fin!! Pudo decir la población mayoritariamente apoyando a los procesos legales que tienen que acabar con la impunidad en el país. Han sido más de tres meses de aquellos hechos y la idea de que Leopoldo Fernández y sus secuaces vayan a pasar la navidad en la cárcel es algo que nadie hubiera imaginado meses atrás. Por fin, grita la población, pero no la minoría opositora que aún declara a Leopoldo como un perseguido político y mártir de su causa política y que tiene la capacidad mediática de hacer resonar sus rebuznos en la mayoría de periódicos y canales de televisión que no hacen sino repetir las mismas mentiras.
Por cierto que la sarta de calumnias que se imprimen en los periódicos todos los días contra este gobierno ha sido tema de discusión este mes, no porque se reconozcan como tal, sino porque el presidente arremetió públicamente contra un periodista del periódico La Prensa cuyo titular le acusaba directamente de ser un contrabandista. Resulta que la noticia durante más de una semana ha sido que el gobierno atenta contra la libertad de prensa y tiene instintos autoritarios. Si estuvieran en Inglaterra, ese periodista estaría en la cárcel.
Las otras noticias del mes han sido más positivas. Por una parte, el día 20 de diciembre se declaraba a Bolivia país libre de analfabetismo y por otra, este mes se reunían en Bahia, Brasil, los jefes de estado de todos los países de America Latina, reunidos por primera vez a instancia latinoamericana sin Estados Unidos que siempre ha manejado el cotarro en la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA). Las resoluciones adoptadas en esta reunión también son importantes porque marcan una mayor independencia del continente en relación al imperio del norte en cuanto a sus economías (se está hablando de una integración económica con moneda única), política (la integración política de UNASUR, con base en Cochabamba es imparable) e incluso militar. Para mostrar esta nueva confianza internacional de un nuevo bloque liderado por Brasil, se decidió invitar a Cuba a formar parte del grupo de Rio, restableciendo así su condición como país de primera en la comunidad de naciones latinoamericanas, después de aquella expulsión vergonzosa de Cuba de la OEA en 1962 a instancia de los Estados Unidos.
Dicen que Porfirio Díaz, Presidente mexicano, una vez se compadeció de su país que estaba ‘…tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos’. Parece ser que por fin su país, como el resto de América Latina, está dispuesto a distanciarse un poquito de su vecino del norte.
Feliz navidad. Nos vemos en el 2009.
Es ésta la noticia del mes y del año, pues los acontecimientos de septiembre y la violencia desatada en el oriente boliviano representan sin ninguna duda el momento más oscuro de la gestión de Evo Morales y el peor ejemplo de violencia desde el octubre negro del 2003 que se denominó como ‘la guerra del gas’. La tan rumoreada guerra civil no se llegó a producir sino que la paciencia interminable del gobierno y la intervención de UNASUR, así como la expulsión del país del embajador estadounidense Philip Goldberg que alentaba a la oposición, tuvieron como resultado una pacificación rápida de las poblaciones afectadas y un fracaso rotundo de la estrategia golpista de la ultraderecha de la que aún no se ha restablecido.
La segunda noticia de importancia este mes ha sido el trabajo de la justicia boliviana que por fin ha empezado a arrestar a aquellos que instigaron y participaron en la violencia organizada para intentar derrocar al gobierno más popular de la historia republicana del país. Por fin!! Pudo decir la población mayoritariamente apoyando a los procesos legales que tienen que acabar con la impunidad en el país. Han sido más de tres meses de aquellos hechos y la idea de que Leopoldo Fernández y sus secuaces vayan a pasar la navidad en la cárcel es algo que nadie hubiera imaginado meses atrás. Por fin, grita la población, pero no la minoría opositora que aún declara a Leopoldo como un perseguido político y mártir de su causa política y que tiene la capacidad mediática de hacer resonar sus rebuznos en la mayoría de periódicos y canales de televisión que no hacen sino repetir las mismas mentiras.
Por cierto que la sarta de calumnias que se imprimen en los periódicos todos los días contra este gobierno ha sido tema de discusión este mes, no porque se reconozcan como tal, sino porque el presidente arremetió públicamente contra un periodista del periódico La Prensa cuyo titular le acusaba directamente de ser un contrabandista. Resulta que la noticia durante más de una semana ha sido que el gobierno atenta contra la libertad de prensa y tiene instintos autoritarios. Si estuvieran en Inglaterra, ese periodista estaría en la cárcel.
Las otras noticias del mes han sido más positivas. Por una parte, el día 20 de diciembre se declaraba a Bolivia país libre de analfabetismo y por otra, este mes se reunían en Bahia, Brasil, los jefes de estado de todos los países de America Latina, reunidos por primera vez a instancia latinoamericana sin Estados Unidos que siempre ha manejado el cotarro en la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA). Las resoluciones adoptadas en esta reunión también son importantes porque marcan una mayor independencia del continente en relación al imperio del norte en cuanto a sus economías (se está hablando de una integración económica con moneda única), política (la integración política de UNASUR, con base en Cochabamba es imparable) e incluso militar. Para mostrar esta nueva confianza internacional de un nuevo bloque liderado por Brasil, se decidió invitar a Cuba a formar parte del grupo de Rio, restableciendo así su condición como país de primera en la comunidad de naciones latinoamericanas, después de aquella expulsión vergonzosa de Cuba de la OEA en 1962 a instancia de los Estados Unidos.
Dicen que Porfirio Díaz, Presidente mexicano, una vez se compadeció de su país que estaba ‘…tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos’. Parece ser que por fin su país, como el resto de América Latina, está dispuesto a distanciarse un poquito de su vecino del norte.
Feliz navidad. Nos vemos en el 2009.
Saturday, 20 December 2008
Wake up, Latin America, it’s time to start dreaming: Towards a new Latin America of the 21st century
There is no better example of the degree of anger the Bush administration generates around the world than this week’s shoe attack against the President of the United States at his last press conference in Baghdad. But if this zapatazo as the Latin American Press has referred to the incident, was a literal attack on the President, there are signs of many more metaphorical zapatazos to the US and its sense of might. This week, Latin America finally stood up to its neighbour with a single voice. It is now President Obama’s turn to outline the next US administration’s policy towards Latin America.
Kepa Artaraz
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1674/1/
It is not only Egyptian journalists that are angry with the world’s superpower. The entire world is angry with reputedly the worst American administration in living memory. The blunders have gone far and wide, from its Middle Eastern policy and the invasion of Iraq, the so called war on terror that was seen as justification for secret detention centres, human rights abuses, the use of torture as a legitimate questioning method, Guantanamo Bay and rendition fights, to the imposition of a economic regulatory light touch that has led to the biggest financial crisis since 1929.
Clearly the world has a lower opinion of the US now than it did in 2000, even after the biggest presidential election shambles in history that saw George W. Bush appointed as the new US president by his father’s friends. Neocons wanted to impose US might around the world – shock and awe was the name of their bombing campaign that began the invasion of Iraq – and yet, eight years later America appears weaker, not mightier, than ever.
A sign of that weakness is the superpower’s powerlessness to stop a new correlation of forces taking place in the world. The United States is, by far, the most powerful military force in the world, something that is not going to change any time soon. However, the geopolitics of capital point in the direction of China, the new creditor of the United States, currently holding the biggest reserves of US dollars in the world, and to other emerging nations such as India and Russia. Is the post-communist unipolar world led by the US about to change?
The answer is yes, and no. In a recent article Serge Halimi complains that the G20 is useless because its most recent meeting in November not only did not challenge the established international financial order but it supported it. So the new emerging powers of India, Brazil and Russia, led by China, did not overturn the sacred truths of the Washington Consensus but reinforced them, calling for more, not less, free trade, and an emergency agreement in the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation.
It would be foolish for the emerging economies to attempt to overturn the economic system that has seen them become global economic players in the last two decades. No, they will do anything to return to the situation we were in before the ugly sub-prime monster reared its head, in part because, as is the case with China, its economy is joined at the hip with that of the US. One produces what the other consumes so the current financial crisis affects everybody.
But on the other hand, it seems obvious that the global power centre of gravity is rapidly changing to the East on the one hand, and towards the South on the other. A case in point is Latin America, where a newly found assertiveness and unity of voice might well be the direct result of US weakness.
This week, a similar attempt on the dignity of the US as that perpetrated by the infamous shoe attack has taken place in the city of Bahia, Brazil, where, led by world statesman and President of Brazil Lula, a mega summit brought together the meetings of the organisation of Latin American and Caribbean countries, MERCOSUR and UNASUR. As president Correa from Ecuador argued, the gathering was symbolically important as it was the first time in history that all Latin American countries met by themselves in a meeting agreed by themselves without the presence of the US.
Three key resolutions at these various meetings can be seen to challenge US power in the region. The first is the decision to accept Cuba as member of the Rio group. Coming on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and after 46 years as a political pariah in the continent when, following US demands, Cuba was expelled from OAS in 1962, the tide is finally turning, thus beginning the political rehabilitation of the country at Latin American level.
It could have gone further as President Morales of Bolivia demanded that the US either accepts Cuba back to the OAS or leaves the organisation. Lula disassociated himself from that position arguing that the new president of the US needs time to outline his policies towards Latin America before Latin America either welcomes or condemns these views. He did, however, condemn the US embargo on Cuba and joined a chorus of support for the island and expectation that the new US administration will review this policy.
Secondly, the presidents of UNASUR officially received the report by the investigative commission they themselves set up in September to look into the murder of 20 peasants in the northern region of Pando, Bolivia. They unanimously confirmed that what took place in Pando was a massacre and a serious breach in human rights and were united in supporting the democratic process of change in Bolivia and in declaring impunity a thing of the past. The declaration is a clear affront to extreme right wing groups in Bolivia and to their supporters in the US who, through the expelled US ambassador in the country, were fomenting civil strife and violence in August and early September. The United States has been conspicuously quiet about these events.
Thirdly, the meeting in Bahia creates a Latin American Security Council and common defence programme. Does this mark the last rites for a US Monroe Doctrine that, since 1823, has given itself the right to intervene in any number of Latin American countries, both directly and indirectly, supporting every dictatorship as long as it defended American interests? Is this a salvo to the IV fleet re-established this year to patrol Caribbean and Latin American waters?
Clearly, the events this week in Bahia mark a new departure for a region that is proceeding towards an accelerated process of political, economic and military integration. In the process, Latin America also aims to be more independent from the US. And so the proposals first discussed barely a month ago at the ALBA meeting in Caracas of creating a single Latin American currency are reinforced by the creation of a development Banco del Sur that replaces dependency of countries in the region on the World Bank and the IMF.
Clearly there is a new correlation of forces in the world and some of the more assertive and self-assured – even hostile and rancorous – views expressed in Bahia are an indicator that the countries of Latin America are starting to question every bastion of US power, from its self-appointed role as the world’s policeman, to that of defender of the international financial institutions that countries like Ecuador claim have inflicted on them illegitimate, immoral and illegal debts.
They say that former Mexican President Porfirio Diaz once lamented that his country was ‘so far from God and so close to the United States’. This week, that distance to the United States seems to have increased just a little bit.
Kepa Artaraz
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1674/1/
It is not only Egyptian journalists that are angry with the world’s superpower. The entire world is angry with reputedly the worst American administration in living memory. The blunders have gone far and wide, from its Middle Eastern policy and the invasion of Iraq, the so called war on terror that was seen as justification for secret detention centres, human rights abuses, the use of torture as a legitimate questioning method, Guantanamo Bay and rendition fights, to the imposition of a economic regulatory light touch that has led to the biggest financial crisis since 1929.
Clearly the world has a lower opinion of the US now than it did in 2000, even after the biggest presidential election shambles in history that saw George W. Bush appointed as the new US president by his father’s friends. Neocons wanted to impose US might around the world – shock and awe was the name of their bombing campaign that began the invasion of Iraq – and yet, eight years later America appears weaker, not mightier, than ever.
A sign of that weakness is the superpower’s powerlessness to stop a new correlation of forces taking place in the world. The United States is, by far, the most powerful military force in the world, something that is not going to change any time soon. However, the geopolitics of capital point in the direction of China, the new creditor of the United States, currently holding the biggest reserves of US dollars in the world, and to other emerging nations such as India and Russia. Is the post-communist unipolar world led by the US about to change?
The answer is yes, and no. In a recent article Serge Halimi complains that the G20 is useless because its most recent meeting in November not only did not challenge the established international financial order but it supported it. So the new emerging powers of India, Brazil and Russia, led by China, did not overturn the sacred truths of the Washington Consensus but reinforced them, calling for more, not less, free trade, and an emergency agreement in the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation.
It would be foolish for the emerging economies to attempt to overturn the economic system that has seen them become global economic players in the last two decades. No, they will do anything to return to the situation we were in before the ugly sub-prime monster reared its head, in part because, as is the case with China, its economy is joined at the hip with that of the US. One produces what the other consumes so the current financial crisis affects everybody.
But on the other hand, it seems obvious that the global power centre of gravity is rapidly changing to the East on the one hand, and towards the South on the other. A case in point is Latin America, where a newly found assertiveness and unity of voice might well be the direct result of US weakness.
This week, a similar attempt on the dignity of the US as that perpetrated by the infamous shoe attack has taken place in the city of Bahia, Brazil, where, led by world statesman and President of Brazil Lula, a mega summit brought together the meetings of the organisation of Latin American and Caribbean countries, MERCOSUR and UNASUR. As president Correa from Ecuador argued, the gathering was symbolically important as it was the first time in history that all Latin American countries met by themselves in a meeting agreed by themselves without the presence of the US.
Three key resolutions at these various meetings can be seen to challenge US power in the region. The first is the decision to accept Cuba as member of the Rio group. Coming on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and after 46 years as a political pariah in the continent when, following US demands, Cuba was expelled from OAS in 1962, the tide is finally turning, thus beginning the political rehabilitation of the country at Latin American level.
It could have gone further as President Morales of Bolivia demanded that the US either accepts Cuba back to the OAS or leaves the organisation. Lula disassociated himself from that position arguing that the new president of the US needs time to outline his policies towards Latin America before Latin America either welcomes or condemns these views. He did, however, condemn the US embargo on Cuba and joined a chorus of support for the island and expectation that the new US administration will review this policy.
Secondly, the presidents of UNASUR officially received the report by the investigative commission they themselves set up in September to look into the murder of 20 peasants in the northern region of Pando, Bolivia. They unanimously confirmed that what took place in Pando was a massacre and a serious breach in human rights and were united in supporting the democratic process of change in Bolivia and in declaring impunity a thing of the past. The declaration is a clear affront to extreme right wing groups in Bolivia and to their supporters in the US who, through the expelled US ambassador in the country, were fomenting civil strife and violence in August and early September. The United States has been conspicuously quiet about these events.
Thirdly, the meeting in Bahia creates a Latin American Security Council and common defence programme. Does this mark the last rites for a US Monroe Doctrine that, since 1823, has given itself the right to intervene in any number of Latin American countries, both directly and indirectly, supporting every dictatorship as long as it defended American interests? Is this a salvo to the IV fleet re-established this year to patrol Caribbean and Latin American waters?
Clearly, the events this week in Bahia mark a new departure for a region that is proceeding towards an accelerated process of political, economic and military integration. In the process, Latin America also aims to be more independent from the US. And so the proposals first discussed barely a month ago at the ALBA meeting in Caracas of creating a single Latin American currency are reinforced by the creation of a development Banco del Sur that replaces dependency of countries in the region on the World Bank and the IMF.
Clearly there is a new correlation of forces in the world and some of the more assertive and self-assured – even hostile and rancorous – views expressed in Bahia are an indicator that the countries of Latin America are starting to question every bastion of US power, from its self-appointed role as the world’s policeman, to that of defender of the international financial institutions that countries like Ecuador claim have inflicted on them illegitimate, immoral and illegal debts.
They say that former Mexican President Porfirio Diaz once lamented that his country was ‘so far from God and so close to the United States’. This week, that distance to the United States seems to have increased just a little bit.
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Yo si puedo (Yes I can): Bolivia pais libre de analfabetismo or the end of illiteracy for Bolivia
20 December is the date when Bolivia will be declared free of illiteracy, something not many countries in the world can boast about. After three years of work with close to a million people, almost one in every nine Bolivians currently in the country, Bolivia is prepared to receive the best possible Christmas present for 2008.
Illiteracy figures in Bolivia, just like all other human development indicators are (or were) rather terrible, only surpassed in Latin America by those found in Haiti. This realisation was acted upon by president Evo Morales within days of being elected in December 2005 who asked Cuban officials for help in the implementation of a literacy campaign similar to that conducted in Cuba in the early 1960s.
The campaign benefitted from the collaboration of Cuban and Venezuelan specialists who managed the programme called ‘Yo si puedo’ (Yes, I can). But it was the consistent effort of about 60,000 people that permitted the programme to advance and reach this critical stage.
In the process, the Bolivian state had to bring solar panels to thousands of isolated communities so that people could follow their literacy lessons in the evenings. The Bolivian government also had to issue hundreds of thousands of glasses for those people who could not see or afford the glasses that would allow them to join the campaign.
The declaration of Bolivia as only the third country in the Americas free of illiteracy just in time for the approval of the new constitutional document by national referendum next January is certainly a propaganda coup for the MAS government. But it is the human dignity of those hundreds of thousands of people who can now sign their own names that we should remember. Just like in Cuba 57 years ago, their ‘veil of ignorance and darkness’ was lifted to join a sunnier future.
Illiteracy figures in Bolivia, just like all other human development indicators are (or were) rather terrible, only surpassed in Latin America by those found in Haiti. This realisation was acted upon by president Evo Morales within days of being elected in December 2005 who asked Cuban officials for help in the implementation of a literacy campaign similar to that conducted in Cuba in the early 1960s.
The campaign benefitted from the collaboration of Cuban and Venezuelan specialists who managed the programme called ‘Yo si puedo’ (Yes, I can). But it was the consistent effort of about 60,000 people that permitted the programme to advance and reach this critical stage.
In the process, the Bolivian state had to bring solar panels to thousands of isolated communities so that people could follow their literacy lessons in the evenings. The Bolivian government also had to issue hundreds of thousands of glasses for those people who could not see or afford the glasses that would allow them to join the campaign.
The declaration of Bolivia as only the third country in the Americas free of illiteracy just in time for the approval of the new constitutional document by national referendum next January is certainly a propaganda coup for the MAS government. But it is the human dignity of those hundreds of thousands of people who can now sign their own names that we should remember. Just like in Cuba 57 years ago, their ‘veil of ignorance and darkness’ was lifted to join a sunnier future.
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