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PEACE campaigners and supporters of Bolivia’s ousted president Evo Morales have gathered in London to say No to the coup in the Latin American country.
Stop the War Coalition convenor Lindsey German told last night’s rally, organised by Friends of Bolivia, that the idea the events were anything other than a coup “is just simply plain words.”
She said: “It is a coup. Morales was forced to resign and what’s going on in Bolivia — the attacks on the indigenous people, the attacks on the elected representatives — is hideous stuff.”
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
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
