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Bolivia's former President Evo Morales waves during a press conference in Buenos Aires
OUSTED Bolivian president Evo Morales vowed to “keep fighting” as he arrived in Argentina, where he has accepted political asylum.
Though the outgoing neoliberal government of Mauricio Macri supported the military coup that drove Mr Morales from office last month following his re-election, newly elected President Alberto Fernandez — who formally took office on Tuesday — has condemned the putsch.
New Argentinian Foreign Minister Felipe Sola said Mr Morales would feel happier closer to his own country than in Mexico, the government of which has been credited with saving his life by arranging his departure from Bolivia and granting him asylum. Far-right gangs had torched his home and attacked his supporters in La Paz after military chief Williams Kaliman ordered him from office.
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
