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Reactionary Rampage: The Paramilitary Massacre in Bolivia by Forrest Hylton Events in Bolivia took a dramatic turn on September 11 with the murder of more than two dozen government supporters by armed vigilantes in the northern department of Pando. With the massacre, President Morales' denunciations of a "civic coup" grew more urgent, sparking an emergency top-level meeting of the South American Union in Chile. Read More

Cowboys and Indians of the Bolivarian Revolution by Simón Farabundo Ríos In the northwestern sierra of Hugo Chávez's Venezuela, a cowboys and Indians saga of the twenty-first century is coming to a head. The conflict pits wealthy cattle ranchers (hacendados) and coal barons against the Yukpa, Barí, and Wayuú indigenous nations in the renegade state of Zulia. Read More

Bolivia: A Coup in the Making? by Jeffrey R. Webber "Bolivia on the Brink," is a phrase too often uttered by passing journalists unaccustomed to the country's regular politics of the streets. But events of the last two weeks cannot be passed off as the ordinary business of protest. Rather, a right-wing coup attempt is in the offing in the five departments (states) governed by the opposition to President Evo Morales. Read More

Mexico’s “New Labor Culture”: An Interview With Union Leader Benedicto Martínez by Fred Rosen Benedicto Martínez, a leader of Mexico's Authentic Workers Front (FAT), talks to NACLA about the bleak prospects faced by workers in an age of global labor markets and an anti-labor state. Read More