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Evo Morales dedicated his historic election victory yesterday, winning an unprecedented presidential third term, to Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
“There is a deep feeling, not just in Bolivia but in the Americas, of freedom, of a triumph for all anti-imperialists,” Mr Morales said.
The Bolivian president romped home with 60 per cent of the vote against 25 per cent for wealthy businessman Samuel Doria Medina.
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
