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BOLIVIA’S socialist President Evo Morales will seek a way to stand again in 2019 despite constitutional barriers preventing him doing so, his Movement for Socialism (MAS) resolved at the weekend.
Mr Morales — the first indigenous president in Bolivia’s history — was first elected in 2005 and has won re-election twice, but narrowly lost a referendum earlier this year on amending the constitution to allow him to stand again.
But he remains popular, with an approval rating of 51.3 per cent, according to recent polls — a rating Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera said came despite “the most virulent and aggressive media campaign in Bolivia’s political history” against him.
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
LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
