NACLA Update 11/19/08 - El Salvador's Left Turn, Bolivia: Reform and Reaction




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What's Driving El Salvador's Left Turn?
by Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens

The leftist FMLN party is the current favorite to win El Salvador's March 2009 presidential elections. Besides the economic downturn, the party's success at the polls is being driven by a series of political innovations that have helped broaden the party's appeal and boost its inclusiveness—both at home and abroad. Could this new strategy make El Salvador the next Latin American country to make a turn to the left?
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Obama and Myths of Racial Democracy
by Marisol LeBrón

When Barack Obama clinched the presidency, pundits immediately began claiming the United States was on its way toward becoming a "post-racial" or "color-blind" society. But Latin America shows how claims of an emerging "racial democracy" easily coexist with mass discrimination and racism. Until racial hierarchies are systematically dismantled, myths of racial democracy will continue to mask and perpetuate injustice—both in Latin America and the United States.
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Bolivia: Reform and Reaction in the Hemisphere
by Seemin Qayum and Sinclair Thomson

Nowhere in the hemisphere have recent political tensions between progressive and reactionary forces been sharper than in Bolivia. The country has become a flashpoint for international contests over natural-resource exploitation and revenue, constitutional reform, and U.S. influence in Latin America.
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From the newest NACLA Report

November/December 2008: Terror Incognita


Building the Homeland Security State

by Roberto Lovato

The U.S. government's huge new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) was established to battle a new kind of domestic enemy, undocumented immigration. Yet the creation of ICE was not so much motivated by a perceived need to enforce migration policy as by a desire to build up the domestic security apparatus.
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