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by Our Foreign Desk
MEMBERS of Bolivia’s legislative assembly voted overwhelmingly at the weekend to approve a constitutional amendment that would allow President Evo Morales to seek a fourth term in 2020.
The measure was backed by a 112-41 vote and will now be submitted to voters in a national referendum in February 2016.
Latin America is being swept by a series of right-wing electoral victories. But behind that shift to the right lies less of an ideological conversion than anger, fear, insecurity, and a deep crisis of democracy, asserts MARC VANDEPITTE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
