Workers Struggles: The Americas
Police attack pensioners’ protest march in Argentina, while health workers strike throughout Chile.
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COVID surge underway in Bolivia and Peru
The new surge, in countries with the world’s highest death rates from COVID-19, shows the continuing threat posed by the deadly virus.
•Cesar Uco
Bolivia faces deepening economic crisis at start of election year
An arrest order for ex-president Evo Morales, issued by his former ally and now rival President Luis Arce, has sparked anger among Morales supporters.
•Cesar Uco
Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales survives assassination attempt
The failed assassination attempt has sharply intensified the conflict between factions of the ruling MAS party.
•Andrea Lobo
Rival factions of MAS ruling party clash in Bolivia
The implosion of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia sums up the fate of the so-called “pink tide” of bourgeois nationalist governments across Latin America.
•Andrea Lobo
Short-lived military coup fails against Arce in Bolivia
The abortive coup marks a new stage in the turmoil gripping Bolivia ahead of the 2025 elections, where the major drivers are the escalating third world war and deepening crisis of global capitalism.
•Andrea Lobo
Teachers in Bolivia stage national strike against police repression by MAS government
The government of President Luis Arce made clear its rejection of any concessions by unleashing riot police against a march of teachers in La Paz on Wednesday.
•Andrea Lobo
Bolivian teachers holds one-day strike; Rolls-Royce workers locked out in Quebec, Canada
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Public school teachers across Bolivia struck March 18 over education funding, while management locked out 530 workers at a Rolls Royce aircraft engine maintenance facility in Montreal.
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50 years since the Banzer coup in Bolivia
The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) warned that failure to draw the lessons of Banzer’s takeover would lead to even bloodier coups across Latin America.
•Miguel Andrade
NEA staff strike union Washington D.C. headquarters; Uruguayan workers hold nationwide strike
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Staff at the National Education Association are decrying strikebreaking by the largest US teachers union while workers in Uruguay staged a protest against the right-wing government of President Luis Lacalle Pou.
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Jeanine Áñez arrested over coup in Bolivia
Áñez is being charged alongside her government’s ministers and military commanders who played central roles in the US-backed coup of 2019.
•Tomas Castanheira
MAS inaugurates right-wing government in Bolivia
The same day Evo Morales returned to Bolivia, the new government installed a pro-austerity cabinet.
•Tomas Castanheira
MAS denounces dynamite attack against Bolivia’s President-elect Luis Arce
MAS has stated that newly elected president Luis Arce was the target of a bomb attack Thursday night at the party’s La Paz headquarters.
•Tomas Castanheira
Fascist protests in Bolivia demand overturning of presidential election
Last night, a street council called by fascists in Santa Cruz demanded the overturning of the recent election and a military takeover.
•Tomas Castanheira
Jacobin distorts Morales interview to cover for MAS’s turn to right in Bolivia
Jacobin has sought to present the MAS electoral victory as a sign of a “progressive” tide that renders unnecessary any independent political mobilization of workers.
•Andrea Lobo
The MAS victory in Bolivia and bourgeois nationalism’s betrayals in Latin America
The return of the MAS to power in Bolivia is being celebrated by the demoralized bourgeois nationalist parties and the pseudo-left as a political turning point in the region.
•Tomas Castanheira
Coup regime in Bolivia concedes electoral victory to MAS
The ruling class sees a MAS administration as necessary to politically disarm growing workers’ struggles against its devastating response to the coronavirus pandemic.
•Andrea Lobo
Civil war elections in Bolivia
Áñez is using her state position to outlaw the MAS opposition and mobilize fascistic forces among the military against the working masses.
•Tomas Castanheira
Latin America, epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic, on the brink of social explosion
Latin America this week reached the grim milestones of 300,000 COVID-19 deaths and more than 8 million infections.
•Tomas Castanheira
MAS, trade unions and coup regime strike deal to quell revolt by Bolivian workers
This most recent betrayal of the MAS and COB proves once again they represent the interests of the Bolivian ruling class.
•Tomas Castanheira