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The Fun House Mirror: Distortions and Omissions in the News on Bolivia
by Dan Beeton
The mainstream press in the United States will often simply ignore Bolivia, while the little U.S. media coverage the Andean nation does receive is deeply flawed and distorted. The media depicts the government of Evo Morales as having dubious political legitimacy, dismissing his electoral victories as little more than the entrenchment of political polarization in the country. Media coverage of opposition-led violence is also systematically distorted or completely ignored.
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Venezuela's Opposition: Back Into the Frying Pan
by Pablo Morales
The Venezuelan opposition faced a difficult question in February, as the country prepared to vote in a national referendum on abolishing term limits. Would participating in the vote mean conceding an institutional victory to the government of President Hugo Chávez? This was a burning question for the fractious Venezuelan right, whose past anti-electoral tactics— a coup in 2002, an oil strike in 2002-03, a boycott of parliamentary elections in 2005— have only backfired.
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May Day Massacre - 100 Years Ago: Simón Radowitzky, Anarchist and Legend
by Marie Trigona
At May Day protests 100 years ago, Argentine police slaughtered 30 workers who were demanding an eight-hour workday and commemorating Chicago's Hay Market massacre. The repression deeply affected a young anarchist named Simón Radowitzky and unleashed a chain of events that would convert the young man into one of Latin America's most famous internationalists. For the next 100 years, Radowitzky's memory has helped fuel militant worker actions.
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May/June 2009: Food Crisis in the Americas
 The mainstream media parachuted in to cover food riots throughout the world, and quickly moved on. But NACLA Report is committed to bringing you the overlooked, the under-reported, and the covered-up throughout the Americas, so the May/June issue examines the causes and consequences of the ongoing food crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This issue includes an in-depth analysis on the monopoly of food production by transnational corporations and the need for food sovereignty in Latin America; coverage of the Via Campesina's Fifth International Conference in Maputo as a response to the crisis; a conversation with the owner of a collectively-supported taqueria in Oaxaca; a stunning photo essay portraying the displacement of farm workers as a consequence of large-scale genetically modified soy production in Paraguay; and much, much more.
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