Reply #2: Great article!

[Judi Lynn]

So glad to see it.

On June 21st the COB launched a campaign to collect a million signatures calling for nationalization of the country's gas reserves. The US government should send its representative on a basic civics class in Bolivia. Apparently after having been asleep during recent events in Bolivia, Roger “narcolept” Noriega woke up on March 2nd this year to tell the US Senate, “A principal objective of our democracy program in Bolivia is to draw the long-marginalized indigenous population into political life.”12

Arguably as crucial for the future of Latin America as the presidential referendum in Venezuela, very little of the national debate in Bolivia reaches the international media. The imperial “free trade” consensus has never had much time for genuine debate based on accurate and timely information. But the referendums in Bolivia and Venezuela are likely to deliver unmistakeable signals that the empire's subject peoples have had enough - whether the corporate media report it fairly or not.
(snip/...)

That's hitting the nail on the head! Beautiful.