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The recent referendum in Bolivia casts doubt on the claim that the Morales government has simply pursued its own, polarizing, leftist agenda, without regard to the concerns of the broad electorate, says Mark Weisbrot.

Allied to global agribusiness, the agrarian elite of Bolivia are fomenting a coup as they struggle for control of the life-blood of the economy, writes Roger Burbach.

Latin America is defined by a series of paradoxes that befuddle commentators, from the economy and popular support for leftist movements, to profits, growth and hunger, writes James Petras.

In Mexico City, the working poor are forced to confront the false promises of globalization every day - as a race to the bottom that sees only decreases in wages despite the soaring costs of food.

Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. 

Venezuela ’s President Hugo Chavez remains the world’s leading secular, democratically elected political leader who has consistently and publicly opposed imperialist wars in the Middle East, attacked extra-territorial intervention and US and European Union complicity in kidnapping and torture.

The trajectory of social change in Central America and Latin America in recent decades and, beyond that, the transformations in the global system are the "big picture" that puts into a larger focus issues of democratization and development in Guatemala.