Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 21:24.
Contrary to the wording of the BBC report cited above, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and Beni are departments, not "provinces." Provinces are actually sub-divisions of departments, more or less akin to counties. Bolivia has 112 provinces, not nine. (See the "Departments of Bolivia" page at Statoids: Administrative Divisions of Countries)
At least they didn't refer to the departments as "states"—an even more serious error routinely committed by the gringo media (including, demoralizingly, the New York Times). This isn't hairsplitting—it is precisely what the conflict is all about. "States" only exist in federal systems, such as the USA. States have their own constitutions, legislatures, courts and police. "Departments" in traditionally centralized systems such as Bolivia's have none of those things—something the parvenu petro-elites of the country's Amazon east want to change.
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Contrary to the wording of the BBC report cited above, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and Beni are departments, not "provinces." Provinces are actually sub-divisions of departments, more or less akin to counties. Bolivia has 112 provinces, not nine. (See the "Departments of Bolivia" page at Statoids: Administrative Divisions of Countries)
At least they didn't refer to the departments as "states"—an even more serious error routinely committed by the gringo media (including, demoralizingly, the New York Times). This isn't hairsplitting—it is precisely what the conflict is all about. "States" only exist in federal systems, such as the USA. States have their own constitutions, legislatures, courts and police. "Departments" in traditionally centralized systems such as Bolivia's have none of those things—something the parvenu petro-elites of the country's Amazon east want to change.