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BOLIVIA is set to build a new state-owned processing plant with local coffee producers to make instant coffee, President Luis Arce announced on Tuesday.
The new plant will be in the Yungas region of La Paz, the country’s main coffee-producing centre.
Though the region produces high-quality ground coffee, the largest supplier remains Nescafe, which uses coffee beans from Brazil, where it has been accused of human rights abuses.
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
