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Keeping the Wolves at Bay

By: Olivia Arigho-Stiles

After right-wing nationalists in Bolivia seized power in 2019, a mass movement restored the country’s socialist government — proof that it isn’t elites that protect democracy, but organised workers.

(Photo by Javier Mamani/Getty Images)

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While left-wing governments hold power across most of Latin America, ultra-right social forces remain a threat. In Bolivia, powerful left-Indigenous social movements have managed to keep an insurgent right wing at bay since the devastating coup of 2019. But a growing political crisis for the plurinational state highlights the urgent need to maintain unity in […]

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While left-wing governments hold power across most of Latin America, ultra-right social forces remain a threat. In Bolivia, powerful left-Indigenous social movements have managed to keep an insurgent right wing at bay since the devastating coup of 2019. But a growing political crisis for the plurinational state highlights the urgent need to maintain unity in […]

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While left-wing governments hold power across most of Latin America, ultra-right social forces remain a threat. In Bolivia, powerful left-Indigenous social movements have managed to keep an insurgent right wing at bay since the devastating coup of 2019. But a growing political crisis for the plurinational state highlights the urgent need to maintain unity in […]

While left-wing governments hold power across most of Latin America, ultra-right social forces remain a threat. In Bolivia, powerful left-Indigenous social movements have managed to keep an insurgent right wing at bay since the devastating coup of 2019. But a growing political crisis for the plurinational state highlights the urgent need to maintain unity in […]

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