BOLIVIA has plunged into further chaos after an apparently Christian supremacist politician anointed herself interim president as footage on social media appeared to show widespread abuse of indigenous peoples across the country.
On Tuesday night, deputy Senate speaker Jeanine Anez began a session in an almost empty house, going on to declare herself president of the Senate and then interim president of the country.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER


