‘No rice, no sugar, no eggs’: Bolivians despair as economy tanks
Waiting in line for hours, often in vain, for basics such as cooking oil has become a way of life in Bolivia, where anger over shortages and skyrocketing prices has…
Kenya clashes and Bolivia’s failed coup show perils of economic hardship
Deadly Kenyan protests that scuppered tax hikes and a failed coup amid fading economic prospects in Bolivia this week are violent reminders of the dangers posed by faltering economies and…
Bolivia election
In recent weeks, Donald Trump has been ridiculed, slathered with contempt, and repeatedly branded a ‘liar’, as well as an existential threat to democracy in the United States, by the…
Bolivia election
In recent weeks, Donald Trump has been ridiculed, slathered with contempt, and repeatedly branded a ‘liar’, as well as an existential threat to democracy in the United States, by the…
The Bolivian coup
It would be hard to point to a country whose president who has more democratic legitimacy than Evo Morales. Nobody can seriously dispute that he won the first round of…
Going, going, gone
FOR the first time in 35 years, Chilean voters this month decisively voted into power an admirer of their despicable former dictator, Augusto Pinochet. Despite the US president’s growing penchant…
American action in Venezuela
The naked American aggression against Venezuela has created an outcry across the Global South, while states in the Global North have reacted cautiously, describing it as contrary to international law…
Haunted states
THE commemoration a fortnight ago of the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s demise served as a reminder that the fascist dictatorship established in Spain in the late 1930s had endured…
Coming down from the mountain
The Kurram Agency of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is in the news primarily on account of a spike in the TTP’s wanton attacks against law enforcement cadres. In this atmosphere of sadness,…
Nature’s rights
PAKISTAN, seen as the land of waters, is, in fact, strewn with obstructed, polluted and abandoned water bodies. Almost all of its 19 Ramsar sites — wetlands of international importance…
