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Santa Cruz Governor Luis Camacho
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BOLIVIA’S government condemned the oppositio toay for walking out of dialogue talks on the next census.
Santa Cruz Governor Luis Camacho, a clerical fascist who helped storm the presidential palace during the 2019 military coup against Evo Morales, has begun what he terms “general strike” in the wealthy region in a bid to destabilise the socialist administration of President Luis Arce.
A decision by La Paz to postpone the census to 2024 is the ostensible cause of the friction, with Santa Cruz insisting it be held next year.
Latin America is being swept by a series of right-wing electoral victories. But behind that shift to the right lies less of an ideological conversion than anger, fear, insecurity, and a deep crisis of democracy, asserts MARC VANDEPITTE
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
