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FORMER Bolivian president Evo Morales called on Wednesday for the relaunch of the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers and an end to US meddling in Latin America.
He was speaking on a tour of Peru, where he met coca leaf producers and warned of the malign influence of Washington.
Mr Morales questioned the anti-drug policy pursued by the US government and said it was time for regional collaboration and autonomy on the issue.
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
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
