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...clashing rhetoric is a symptom of Latin America's ongoing culture wars. For a long time, a virtual feudal domain of conservative Roman Catholicism, the region has also spawned some of the most influential leftist movements on the planet - and ideas that are now in a contest with the Church for dominion over Latin America. The leftist Democratic Revolution Party or PRD has controlled Mexico City since 1997, and passed a wave of other reforms, making the capital into what advocates say is a beacon of social progressiveness. The changes have been possible because of Mexico's federal system, which...
...Morales, the first Native American President in Bolivia's history, was re-elected Dec. 7, largely thanks to support from the country's impoverished indigenous majority. Morales won more than 60% of the vote, and his leftist Movement Toward Socialism Party secured majorities in both the 36-seat Senate and 130-member lower house. The decisive victory secures Morales another five-year term and allows him to push for further social and economic reforms. While opponents worry that he will centralize power and align himself politically with Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Morales' re-election brings stability to a country...
...should have never abandoned values that are part of our Republican patrimony to the National Front," Besson told RTL radio in defending the debates last month. The sharp-tongued Besson has slapped down his leftist detractors with mockery and insults, and even dismissed the growing criticism from the right as "café clap-trap." In doing so, he has not only shown the same defiant pugnacity that has become his boss's trademark, but has also become Sarkozy's most effective political operative handling an explosive issue. "Once he bolted the Socialist Party, Besson's very political existence depended...
...office with 140 kilos of seized cocaine beside his desk, the square-jawed soldier explained the smuggling routes for the white powder with the aid of computer maps. Small aircraft were carrying bundles of cocaine from western Venezuela into Honduras, he said. His intelligence showed that the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were operating openly in Venezuelan territory and were behind many of the shipments. "The Venezuelan government is either incapable or complicit in this traffic," he said, speaking with a frankness uncommon among Latin American officials. His forces had found more than 50 such small planes within...
...Zelaya was overthrown earlier this year in a military coup and remains holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. The government installed by the coup also tossed out allegations that the leftist Zelaya, an ally of Chávez's, was a drug smuggler, but failed to produce any evidence to back the claim...