Significant changes have taken place in Bolivia since the election of Latin America’s first peasant-indigenous President, Evo Morales. in 2006. In addition to approving a new constitution that establishes the continent’s first plurinational democratic state, Bolivia was the site of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held last April 2010.
A Canada-Bolivia conference and solidarity event: Canada-Bolivia Relations in the Next Decade will be taking place here at the University of Guelph on Saturday, November 6. This is a unique opportunity to experience and understand the impact this has had on the people of Bolivia.
The special guest speaker for the event will be Hugo Salvatierra Gutierrez, former Bolivian Minister for Rural Development, Agriculture and the Environment in the Evo Morales government and director of ALAS (the Office for Legal Advice and Social Advocacy), an office that works with labour, peasant and indigenous organizations in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Canada-Bolivia Relations In The Next Decade
Saturday, November 6 from 9.30 a.m. and until 5.30 p.m.
McNaughton Room 113 at the University of Guelph
An evening of traditional Bolivian culture to follow.
Canada=Oil and Anti Native American Country Bolivia=Lithium and Pro Native American Country