{"id":2128,"date":"2007-11-26T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T17:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2007-11-26T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T17:26:25","slug":"protests-rock-bolivia-over-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/11\/26\/protests-rock-bolivia-over-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests Rock Bolivia Over New Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest112607\/2007_11_26_dangl.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest112607\/2007_11_26_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20071125\/capt.9611bad4677b4a328d81268d4289498e.bolivia_protests_constitution_dg104.jpg?x=380&#038;y=247&#038;sig=SX1zpemLnL1BHKcM7l6LoQ--\" alt=\"Bolivia\" \/><em>GUEST: Ben Dangl, author of &#8220;The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia&#8221; published this year by AK Press, live from Cochabamba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At least four people have died in violent confrontations in Sucre, Bolivia, where the framework for a new constitution was approved on Saturday. Although each article has yet to be included, if approved, the new constitution will radically alter the future of Bolivia&#8217;s political system. Once the final changes are proposed, voters will determine if a new constitution will be set in place through a referendum. President Evo Morales, an indigenous Aymara and former coca union leader, has long advocated for a constitutional assembly. The majority of delegates to the Assembly belong to Morales&#8217; Party, MAS or Movement Toward Socialism, and have gathered in Sucre to hammer out the new constitution. After a months-long impasse, the framework was finally approved this weekend \u2013 although nearly all of the opposition delegates are boycotting the meeting. Meanwhile, opposition protesters have clashed with police; throwing rocks, dynamite and Molotov cocktails in a last-ditch attempt to stop the assembly from carrying out its work, which is due by December 14. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Ben Dangl, author of &#8220;The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia&#8221; published this year by AK Press, live from Cochabamba At least four people have died in violent confrontations in Sucre, Bolivia, where the framework for a new constitution was approved on Saturday. Although each article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}