BOLIVIA has plunged into further chaos after an apparently Christian supremacist politician anointed herself interim president as footage on social media appeared to show widespread abuse of indigenous peoples across the country.
On Tuesday night, deputy Senate speaker Jeanine Anez began a session in an almost empty house, going on to declare herself president of the Senate and then interim president of the country.
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
While Hardie, MacDonald and Wilson faced down war pressure from their own Establishment, today’s leadership appears to have forgotten that opposing imperial adventures has historically defined Labour’s moral authority, writes KEITH FLETT
DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the traditional right wing, and Trump’s provocations


