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Is Evo Morales’s Bolivia next in Trump’s firing line?
We need to stand by Bolivia’s progressive government led by Evo Morales and celebrate its achievements, writes CHRIS WILLIAMSON MP
Bolivia’s president Evo Morales is awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Guatemala
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From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
CUBA has been blockaded by the United States for nearly 60 years; Venezuela is battling against a raft of US sanctions choking its economy; and Nicaragua is expecting imminent US legislation blocking loans and requiring it to override its constitution and hold early elections. Is Bolivia, and Evo Morales’s socialist government, next in the US’s firing line?
The US has made no secret of its hostility to Morales, dating back to before his successful presidential election victory in 2005. This replaced a neoliberal regime in hock to foreign, mostly US, corporations while 75 per cent of the rural population lived in extreme poverty.
Having won the 2005 presidential election with an absolute majority, the first in Bolivia for 40 years, Morales was re-elected in 2009 with 64.2 per cent of the vote and again in 2014 with 61.3 per cent.
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