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Latin America: A hostage to Trump's United States

Ana C. Carvalhaes — 2026-07-18T09:07:41Z

The largest region of the Americas is the only part of the planet where Trump has managed to make significant progress toward his national security policy goals. Trump faces significant difficulties on the domestic front, where he is trying to limit the predicted defeat for the midterm congressional elections in November.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Latin America, Bolivia

Popular revolt grows in Bolivia

Patrick Guillaudat — 2026-07-01T08:01:08Z

Bolivia has been experiencing a powerful social movement against President Rodrigo Paz's austerity measures since the spring of 2026. Led by trade union, peasant and indigenous organizations, the mobilization is facing growing repression while maintaining its demands against the high cost of living and the grip of multinationals.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Bolivia, Protest movements

Bolivia on the Edge

Forrest Hylton — 2026-06-14T13:23:32Z

During popular insurrections like the one underway in Bolivia, which is calling for President Rodrigo Paz's resignation after just six months in office, the experience of time and space changes, acquiring an extraordinary charge from day to day, even hour to hour. Indigenous campesino insurgents have long characterised such moments as belonging to ‘another time'.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Bolivia

“Until the president resigns...”

Javier Rojas — 2026-06-05T11:19:56Z

In Bolivia, mobilizations against austerity and an agrarian reform favourable to the concentration of land have weakened the government of Rodrigo Paz and his neoliberal policies.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Bolivia

Notes on the Political Situation in South America

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Israel Dutra — 2026-05-28T06:34:16Z

“In these notes, we address South America, where the complexity of societies, scandalous socioeconomic inequality, the presence of a so-called “middle” economy with its own influence in the region (Brazil), a tradition of struggle and organization on the left, and governments less subservient than the liberal right (such as those of Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay), imperialist interventionism faces more obstacles and has to moderate its attacks. In light of important electoral processes and tests in the class struggle posed by far-right and right-wing governments, such as those in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador, it is worth considering the commonalities across national contexts in the region in the coming months.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia

Key Points About the Failed Military Coup and its Aftermath

Pablo Stefanoni — 2024-08-11T10:22:47Z

Images of the military forcibly entering the Government Palace (the Palacio Quemado) have been broadcast around the world, sowing confusion in Bolivia. The failed coup by a faction within the Army, repudiated nationally and internationally, took place in the context of the erosion of Luis Arce's administration, itself large the result of internal discord within the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party. Despite its swift failure, the military rebellion will have political repercussions.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Bolivia

Bolivia Update: Arce's First Year

Bret Gustafson — 2022-01-11T06:28:37Z

“Even with all of these challenges, the scenario in Bolivia is much better than it might have been, and the wider trajectory of Latin America seems promising as well.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / Bolivia

Region's dilemmas reflected on the streets of Colombia

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Israel Dutra — 2021-07-30T08:24:32Z

“The path will be neither linear nor easy, there will be ups and downs, defeats and victories. The big challenge is to be in the struggles, with this new combative generation fighter, to build with it (and not for it) our programme of rupture.”

- IV558 - July 2021 / Brazil, Colombia, Latin America, Ecuador, Bolivia

“Latin America has once again entered a period of strong social and political turbulence”

Franck Gaudichaud — 2021-04-13T07:35:14Z

In this interview, Franck Gaudichaud considers the social and political dynamics of the recent period, and also current issues in the region.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia

Bolivia's coup plotters in jail as elections loom

Patrick Guillaudat — 2021-03-21T17:10:18Z

“In such a context, the Bolivian people, who have been able to mobilize despite the repression against the Añez government, show that they do not give a blank cheque to anyone.”

- IV554 - March 2021 / Bolivia