Whether Paraguay's infamously right-wing local oligarchy and its parties that seized an opportunity to bring left-leaning President Fernando Lugo down by itself,…

When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought asylum on June 19, the question many supporters asked was: “Why the Ecuadorian embassy?” The simple…

Criticism of Latin America’s radical governments has become common currency among much of the international left. While none have been exempt, Ecuador’s…

For more than a decade Bolivia has been rocked by mass upsurges and mobilisations that have posed the necessity and possibility of…

A new twist in the turbulent saga surrounding a proposed roadway through indigenous land has reignited a debate raging throughout Bolivia since…

A summit of huge importance was held in Venezuela on December 2-3. Two hundred years after Latin America’s independence fighters first raised…

The recent march in Bolivia by some indigenous organisations against the government’s proposed highway through the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous…

Despite the government reaching an agreement with indigenous protesters on all 16 demands raised on their 10-week march onto the capital, La…

Statements, articles, letters and petitions have been circulating on the internet for the past month calling for an end to the "destruction…

WikiLeaks' release of cables from the United States embassy in La Paz has shed light on its attempts to create divisions in…