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BOLIVIA has been paralysed by strikes and roadblocks as trade unions and social movements protest at the repeated postponements of elections by the coup administration, which blames Covid-19 for the delays.
According to the National Transit Directorate, at least 30 routes were blocked on Monday as protesters demanded that voting take place on the originally agreed date of September 6.
The Bolivian Workers Union, the Unity Pact alliance of social organisations and the Movement Towards Socialism (Mas) party of ousted former president Evo Morales called an indefinite strike last week amid mass protests against the government’s decision to delay the elections for a third time.
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
