A New Web Site And A New Report On Bolivia!

Dear Readers:

This newsletter is a short one dedicated to two important announcements from The Democracy Center.

The first is, that after months of design work by our team in Bolivia and the U.S., we are proud to unveil our brand new Web site. Simpler to use, yet more comprehensive than our previous site, you will find everything from a library of free advocacy resources to multimedia presentations on Bolivia. You will also find constantly updated links to the latest versions of our newsletter and our popular Blog from Bolivia, now read by 2,500 to 3,000 people daily. Have a look at the new site this week!

Visit our new Web site here: http://www.democracyctr.org/

Our second announcement is that today The Democracy Center is releasing a major new report on the state of Bolivian politics: Interpreting Bolivia's Political Transformation. The Democracy Center wrote the paper as a response to a new report on Bolivia published by the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, that one titled, Bolivia on the Brink. For those readers interested in current events in Bolivia, the two reports, from The Democracy Center and the Council, are good tools for understanding the transformation under way today in South America's most impoverished and most indigenous country. They also shed light on the important debate underway in Washington over how the U.S. should deal with a changing Bolivia.

The Council on Foreign Relations and The Democracy Center have agreed to post links to each other's papers on our respective Web sites. To read a short summary of The Democracy Center report, and for links to both papers, visit here:

http://www.democracyctr.org/bolivia/documents/InterpretingBolivia.htm

We'll have more news and announcements soon. A few weeks ago we wrapped up work on our new full-length book: Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization. The book will be published in 2008 by the University of California Press. We are also getting ready to launch a new newsletter for those who want to get more frequent updates on events in Bolivia and other new Democracy Center tools: Democracy Center Highlights. We'll announce details on both those soon.

Thanks as always for your support and interest!

Jim Shultz
Executive Director
The Democracy Center

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