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...addition to her domestic volunteer work, Badaracco spent her summers in Ecuador and Bolivia, studied abroad in Chile her junior year, and taught English the year after college in Manaus, Brazil...
...such unabashed displays continue, my own beliefs are cemented: Religion only segments and consumes those that don’t know any better. Take Growing in Faith; its members overwhelmingly consist of Latin American immigrants who left an extremely strict strand of Catholicism in countries like El Salvador or Bolivia. De Jesús offers them something new—Catholicism without original sin. Suddenly, Catholic guilt melts away and they have a voice, an opinion. Burning a Bible or a Torah may certainly catch my attention; I’ll even tolerate it. Yet the real basis of religious toleration...
...State autonomy is perhaps the most contentious issue the constituent assembly will have to tackle as it cobbles together Bolivia's new Magna Carta (which begins August 6 and will last one year). It points up the seemingly intractable east-west dispute that erupted in violence two days after the July 2 vote, when members of the Santa Cruz Youth League attacked a meeting of the mostly indigenous Regional Worker Union in Santa Cruz, injuring dozens, while local police stood by. The commanding police officer was later fired but claims that he was only following the orders of the state...
...assembly will face other hot-button issues that Morales hopes will solidify his leftist reforms and reflect the fact that Bolivia is 70% indigenous. "The point is to establish societal rules that reflect the traditions and realities of the people of Bolivia," said El Alto city councilman Wilson Soria. "For centuries, many of our cultural values have been unrecognized because we've been ruled by a Constitution that responds to the needs of foreigners." The proposals include constitutionalizing traditional forms of indigenous community justice as well as the national "recuperation" of natural resources like lumber, silver, water...
...Morales' hope is that Bolivia's new charter will serve as a model for the ascendant new left in Latin America, a chance to "redefine the rules of the game" in a region where the gap between rich and poor is the widest in the world. But the July 2 vote was also a reminder that even Morales' revolution is subject to checks and balances - and that changing the rules will require the age-old game of political horse trading...