Members and supporters of the Association for Human Rights in Bolivia celebrated Bolivia's Plurinational State Foundation Day.聽Federico Fuentes reports.
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Pedro Castillo, leader of the left-wing Peru Libre party, was sworn in as Peru鈥檚 president on July 28, reports Ben Radford. Since then, his government has faced a campaign of destabilisation from the right-wing opposition.
Many Australians watched the shit-show of the recent United States elections and questioned the level of democracy in that country. Alex Bainbridge asks if there's much of a difference here.
鈥淐ubans want a socialist country, a developed country, and support for the Cuban Revolution remains strong,鈥 Leima Martinez Freire told a public meeting in Sydney on April 4.
More than 600 delegates in Cuba鈥檚 National Assembly of People鈥檚 Power, the country鈥檚 highest decision-making body, approved the draft of a new Constitution on July 22. It came after two days of debate in which more than 100 delegates participated, writes Helen Yaffe.
The Greens and the Australian Labor Party signed an agreement on September 1 to form a minority government on certain conditions, one of which was support for amendments to the constitution to recognise Aboriginal people. The government has agreed to hold a referendum on the issue.
The proposal has sparked debate among Aboriginal activists about its usefulness for the Aboriginal rights struggle.
The following speech was delivered by Jeff McMullen to a September 8 meeting in Parramatta, organised by Reconciliation for Western Sydney.
A series of problems and challenges are facing the Bolivian government of President Evo Morales, the country鈥檚 first indigenous head of state, and the process of change it leads has emerged. There has been a range of commentary on these challenges. 麻豆传媒 Weekly publishes these two pieces as part of our ongoing coverage of the Latin American revolution. The article below is by Eduardo Paz Rada, editor of Bolivian-based magazine Patria Grande. It has been translated by Federico Fuentes.
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