BBC's 180 on Bolivia

Ever since the unfortunate death of Lola Almudevar, BBC's reporters in Bolivia have become just as bias as the BBC reporters in Venezuela. With headlines like:

Bolivia head praises reform plan

Why wouldn't Morales praise the reforms he has been pushing for months? BBC appears to be drawing the lines for their next propaganda campaign by making sure everyone knows Morales is against these declarations for autonomy. Not very long ago, BBC and all of the other Western News agencies launched a campaign in support of the Venezuelan students to stop Chavez's attempt to change his constitution. Now they're doing the same to Morales and Bolivia.

The wealthy European-Bolivians are getting more international media coverage than they deserve just like the bourgeois students in Venezuela. Their numbers are small and their argument, greedy. Eastern Bolivia has no grounds for declaring autonomy from the countries government just because their party no longer has control over the executive and legislative branches due to a movement supported by the poor and oppressed.

If this was any other country, lets go ahead and use Mexico as an example, then these people would be considered terrorists. In Chiapas, the indigenous population declared autonomy, with help from the Zapatistas, from Mexico's corrupt government in an attempt to pull themselves out of poverty. Within days, many people in Chiapas were murdered by their own government and government supporting groups. The media was largely anti-Zapatistas and if it was not for independent journalists and political activists, then we would never have known what was actually going on in Chiapas. Where was the mainstream media then?

In addition, the declaration of autonomy in Chiapas was due to the North American Free Trade Agreement being implemented. This is very similar to Bolivia because the declaration for autonomy in Bolivia was also due to legislative reforms. However there's one major difference -- the indigenous population isn't the minority in Bolivia.

Will Bolivia's splits widen in 2008?

Is another article containing this quote:

"So reason for Bolivia to rejoice? Far from it. "

Is leading the reader to believe that the reforms are only good on paper. Stopping these reforms isn't going to make the problems go away, so by implying that these reforms have made the country worse off is downright irresponsible for any real reporter. A journalist shouldn't be putting their opinions into news articles, they can save their opinionated articles for their blogs.

The indigenous people in Bolivia have been trying to change the government for many years now and if they reform doesn't pass, then even more conflict is bound to arise. It was Morales who stopped the last Bolivian riots by promising to peacefully make change -- which he has miraculously kept his word thus far. And if the wealthy eastern Bolivians stop him, I expect those riots to start right where they left off.

BBC cannot be trusted to report on South America with regards to any leader who is remotely leftist anymore. For those looking to read something that isn't littered in lies, I suggest NarcoNews:
http://www.narconews.com/en.html

Al Jazeera is similar to BBC, but I haven't seen anything in the past few weeks that would lead me to believe they're hopelessly bias against the left:
http://english.aljazeera.net/English

This just goes to show that government media is just as bad as private media; independent media seems to be the last hope for truth.