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DELEGATES from across the developing world called for a “new world order” of peace and development in Bolivia last week.
The final declaration of the World People’s Conference in Tiquipaya said the “social property of natural resources” must be protected, the Bolivian Information Agency reported.
Four thousand delegates from 43 countries on four continents attended the conference on Tuesday and Wednesday last week.
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
LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET