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Tories and liberals got it disastrously wrong over Bolivia in their rush to smear Labour, says SOLOMON HUGHES
JUSTICE SERVED: Jeanine Anez in her cell in Miraflores women’s jail in preventive detention since March 2021 on charges of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy, for leading the the coup d’etat against then-president Evo Morales
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
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IN 2019, Bolivia’s left-wing president, Evo Morales, of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) stood for re-election.
Morales won most votes, but there were mass demonstrations by right-wing Bolivians against the result, inspired by claims of voting fraud.
The Organisation of American States (OAS) ruled there had been “serious irregularities” in voting.
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