Morales Victorious in Bolivian Referendum
The BBC confirms that the recent poll undertaken by the Bolivian government has come out in favor of continuing Evo Morales’ reforms. This is not only a political victory for Morales, but for socialism in general, and a thorough rejection of the tendentious separatism of the Bolivian aristocracy that has threatened the country’s unity.
Bush, Colombia & Narco-Politics
For all of the MSM’s criticism of Chávez’s government as being hypothetically violent, it’s strange how little we hear about the actual violence perpetrated by the right-wing Colombian government, which is unsurprisingly backed by the Bush administration. At the very least, it’ll be interested to see how the row over FARC will play itself out in the coming weeks.
(Via A Tiny Revolution.)