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Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's Drugs and Democracy Team expose the myths and reality surrounding the coca leaf.

Stepping away from the darkness

Martin Jelsma

The experiences of countries that have decriminalised drugs show that fears of explosions in drugs use are unfounded.

US-Cuba politics play out at OAS gathering

Roger Burbach

The United States is facing a virtually united front of Latin American nations demanding that Cuba be readmitted to the Organization of American States (OAS) that meets in Tegucigalpa, Honduras today.

Changing the flow

Twelve brief interviews with water activists from Latin America as well
as declarations from a historic gathering in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in
August, 2008

Indulto de mulas en Ecuador, una propuesta sensata

Pien Metaal

Then and now, Venezuela and Cuba, 1960-2008

Saul Landau

Watching Hugo Chavez orate on Venezuelan television rings old memory bells. “Socialism.

A revolution without borders: reappraising Bolivia’s crisis

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Samuel Grove and Pablo Navarrete

Bolivia, a country used to being ignored by the western media, has hit the headlines in recent months due to the marked increase in violence among opponents and supporters of the government. Back in December 2005 Bolivia, a country in which 62 per cent of the population identify themselves as...

Postcard from Venezuela

Saul Landau

“The construction of socialism in Venezuela is ratified, and now we will take charge of deepening it.”
-- President Hugo Chavez, after learning the results of the November 23 elections.

Chavez’s PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) won 17 of 23...

The United States: Orchestrating a Civic Coup in Bolivia

Roger Burbach

Bolivian President Evo Morales is visiting the United Nations and the Organization of American States this week to report on the recent US coup attempt against his government. Roger Burbach provides a story of US efforts over the past three years to topple Morales.

Evo Morales is the...

Utopia reborn?

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César Rodríguez-Garavito, Patrick Barret and Daniel Chavez

The resurgence of the left in Latin America has taken social and political analysts by surprise, and this book is the first attempt at a comprehensive analysis of the origins, characteristics, dilemmas and possible future trajectories of the various manifestations of the new Latin American...