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Coup theatrics and constitutional crisis in Bolivia
From dubious military interventions to electoral court manoeuvring, Luis Arce’s government faces accusations of undermining democracy, while Evo Morales and his indigenous base fight for political legitimacy, writes CINDY FORSTER
INDIGENOUS SUPPORT: Supporters of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales rally in El Alto, Bolivia, July 26 2024
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
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
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE stand-off between Bolivia’s president Luis “Lucho” Arce and the former president Evo Morales doubtless undermines the Latin American left, yet its real contours are not widely reported.
Some facts on the coup at the end of June, alongside attempts by the executive to bar Morales from the 2025 presidential race, reveal a common theme: the need felt by 20th-century elites and many non-indigenous individuals to destroy Morales politically.
On July 10 around midday, grassroots movement leaders from across Bolivia were attacked in Plaza Abaroa in La Paz by persons who looked like paramilitaries in a tightly organised block, armed with small explosive devices called “petardos” that are meant to be fired toward the sky.
They fired them directly at the campesino farmers from the countryside and the urban poor who had arrived to support Morales at a meeting of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE).
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