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Leftist Union Leader Evo Morales Poised to Become First Indigenous President of Bolivia In Bolivia, union leader Evo Morales has claimed a stunning victory in Sunday's presidential elections. Exit polls show Morales won just over 50% of the vote - giving him the greatest political mandate that any Bolivian president has had in decades. Morales would become the country's first indigenous head of state. He has vowed to increase state controls over Bolivia's key gas resources and to protect coca plantations. We go to Bolivia for a report....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:23am PST
Coca Growers' Leader Nancy Obregón Arrested in Peru In a “legal” action spurred by the coca growers’ protests in April and May of 2004, the Peruvian police arrested leader Nancy Obregón yesterday. This is part of a strategy of legal harassment being carried out by the Alejandro Toledo administration against Peru’s coca growers’ movement. After last year’s protests — in which “cocaleros” blocked two highways, clashed with police for days and besieged the city of Lima — a judicial process was initiated against the movement’s leaders. This is an ...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:19am PST
Election Day in Bolivia 2005: A View from the Chapare and Cochabamba The Bolivian people have made history. Never have they directly elected their President with more than 50% of the vote; no candidate has even reached 37%. But today, blowing away all polls and projections that placed his support around 35%, Evo Morales Ayma has officially won the Presidential election with over 50% of the popular vote and will head the next government of Bolivia. Scattered accounts of this monumental event are below....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:17am PST
With 51 Percent, Evo is President-Elect In Bolivia He is giving his first speech to the Bolivian people as, for all intents and purposes, the president-elect. Eighty-eight percent of the votes are counted, and with 51 percent he is the president-elect. He no longer needs any help, is not dependent on the National Congress; EVO MORALES AYMA is the new leader of a country that voted for him massively and is now celebrating, everywhere, in every street and plaza it can find....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:16am PST
Crucial choice for Bolivia voters Bolivians are voting in a presidential election in which the front-runner says he could be "nightmare" for the US....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:27am PST
Colombia unravels plot against Chavez Former Venezuelan soldiers plotted against the government of Hugo Chavez at a Colombian military building, according to the Colombian president....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:02am PST
Haiti's Achievements Uunder Aristide And Lavalas - Now Lost Since The U.S. Led Coup The achievements of Aristide and Lavalas during their 10 years in office and current conditions in Haiti after the coup...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 7:48am PST
Bolivian Democracy and the US: a History Lesson The Good Neighbor Policy and Other Political Amusements
Bolivian Democracy and the US: a History Lesson
By SAUL LANDAU...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 2:20pm PST
Zentropa Real's "Guerrilla Girl" follows footsteps of a young middleclass FARC 
Wherever THE REVOLUTON wins, wherever people fighting the USA hold the land in solidarity, a great rejuvenation of the human spirit will explode all fears away. Never again need we fear totalitarianism from the Left – or ultimately from fundamentalist Islam either. Once free and empowered the people everywhere will express themselves sincerely and petty arguments will no longer hold them back or confuse. People power will for once be real and invincible for many of us sense that this is the F...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 12:18pm PST
BTL:After Opposition Parties Boycott Vote, Hugo Chavez Wins Total Control of... ...Venezuela's Parliament ~ Interview with Gregory Wilpert, sociologist and journalist living in Caracas, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 6:11am PST
In the footsteps of Che Guevara: Democracy in South America Thirty-eight years after the revolutionary perished in the Bolivian foothills, Evo Morales is poised to become the first indigenous president of the impoverished country which has been run by politicians of European descent since independence in 1825. By Daniel Howden in La Paz...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 9:52pm PST
Venezuela MPs accuse US of 'plot' Two leading Venezuelan MPs have accused the US State Department, the CIA and a Congresswoman of a plot to damage the government of President Hugo Chavez....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 9:02pm PST
Socialist leads in Chile poll Michelle Bachelet, a socialist, leads Chile's presidential elections, but not by enough votes to avoid a run-off against a right-wing rival in January when she could become the country's first woman president....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 11:03pm PST
Woman tortured by Pinochet leads Chile's presidential poll On 10 January 1975, Michelle Bachelet, a 23-year-old medical student in Chile, was arrested with her mother by General Augusto Pinochet's secret police. The pair survived three weeks of torture, but Ms Bachelet's father, arrested earlier, did not....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 8:22am PST
Protest against capital and its democracy of the rich at the University of Chile 
...at the Juan Gómez Millas campus of the University of Chile (in Santiago), masked demonstrators broke with the tranquility and passivity imposed by capital and fought for nearly 40 minutes against police using firebombs and stones....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 4:25pm PST
Ecuador's New Canadian Ambassador Helped Plan Haiti Coup With little fanfare only three days before the minority Liberal government of Paul Martin fell by way of a non-confidence vote in Ottawa's House of Commons (on November 28th), beleaguered Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew appointed Christian Lapointe as Canada's next Ambassador to Ecuador. Lapointe has been serving as Director of the Caribbean and Central America and Andean Region Division within the Department of Foreign Affairs. This move could spell trouble for Ecuador as Canada is...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 7:21am PST
Shadowy world of narco-trafficking in Ciudad Juarez Tracking the bloody footprints in the House of Death: Part I...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 7:17am PST
‘A gift of survival’: Venezuela’s Citgo provides low-cost heating oil to U.S. needy BRONX, N.Y. — Residents of the Fordham-Bedford cooperative housing project, home to thousands of working-class people, were facing desperate times. Many were unable to pay their electric bills, and their lights were shut off. A desperate mother had lost her job and could not afford to pay the rent. This holiday season promised to be hard for the parents: they weren’t going to be able to afford gifts for their children....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:47pm PST
CIA 'plot to kill Chavez' Venezuelan politicians claim that the CIA plotted to kill Hugo Chavez, the president, in an attempt to derail the country’s legislative elections on 4 December....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:24pm PST
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