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An MAS election rally this month
THE resignations of three ministers in Jeanine Anez’s coup government show that her “regime is crumbling every day,” a Bolivian democracy campaigner told the Morning Star today.
Economy Minister Oscar Ortiz quit on Monday over the government’s determination to privatise the Electricity and Light Company of Cochabamba, which was brought into public ownership by Evo Morales’s government a decade ago.
Mr Ortiz said the decision should be left to the next administration — elections are due in under a month, with Mr Morales’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) enjoying a commanding lead in the polls.
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the traditional right wing, and Trump’s provocations