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The day was a bit rough in La Paz, but not so much as in the last few weeks: the tension has moved to other places, mainly Sucre, the nominal capital of Bolivia where the National Congress will supposedly meet to decide on whether Carlos Mesa will leave the presidency....

"Once again, we have to write about thousands of marchers who shut down La Paz and clash with the police as they try to take Plaza Murillo."...

More than a year before the presidential elections, Mexican political parties are using new forms of propaganda based on the manipulation of social discontent. This is an attempt to justify the sliver of democratic credibility achieved in 2000 when the conservative National Action Party (PAN) was able to put a former Coca-Cola executive in the president's office. Thus began the age of “democratic transition” which was celebrated mostly due to the defeat of the PRI, a party that had held unint...

In his speech to the Organization of American States (OAS) extolling the benefits of US-style democracy, President George W. Bush declared Monday that Latin Americans “need to see that in a democratic society, people can walk in the streets in safety.” Unfortunately, for those who traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the OAS general assembly, such democratic comforts were in short supply. Rather, the atmosphere surrounding the inter-American meeting was that of a police state, and thos...

President Carlos Mesa of Bolivia has resigned. América once again lives days of immediate history. Jean Friedsky, reporting from the streets of La Paz, writes in the Narcosphere:...

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Film Showing and Eyewitness Account: The 2002 Coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez failed when the people of country rallied against the US backed reactionary forces....

Interview with Javad Jahi, local spokesperson for "Hands Off Assata, Hand Over Posada!" campaign. Jonathan Nack reporting for ESN, Copyright Epicenter News Service. 2005...

Rebellion is in the air in Latin America's poorest country, Bolivia. For weeks, indigenous-led protests have rocked the country and have brought the government to a near shutdown. The protests began as demonstrations calling for nationalization of the country's natural gas resources but that was just the spark for a much bigger war; a war over the rights of the country's majority indigenous population. We go to Cochabamba for a report from human rights activist Jim Shultz of the Democracy Cen...

La Paz was paralyzed again this morning, though only partially. The merchants of El Alto, the rural schoolteachers and the urban schoolteachers, and, once again, the rural Aymara leadership, have returned to the streets of downtown La Paz....