Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez announced that the country will begin the process of exiting the Organization of American States (OAS).
The announcement came after the organisation's Permanent Council agreed on April 26 to convene a meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the situation in Venezuela, with 19 votes in favour, 10 against, one abstention and one absence.
鈥淲ar aids capitalism, those who support capitalism support war, that is, the philosophy of death and destruction,鈥 Boliva鈥檚 left-wing President Evo Morales said on April 18.
Morales warned that humanity was 鈥渁t risk of disappearing in a nuclear holocaust,鈥 as tensions mount worldwide after US military attacks in Syria and Afghanistan.
鈥淣uclear power in the United States and Western countries are getting us dangerously closer to a nuclear conflagration.鈥
Bolivia鈥檚 government and social movements have announced they will host a global people鈥檚 summit on migrants and refugee rights. The "People鈥檚 Conference for a World without Walls and Universal Citizenship", set for June 20 and 21, is expected to draw together immigration experts and pro-migrant and refugee rights organisations and activists from around the world.
Ecuadorean said on January 30 that Latin America needed to respond with a strong, united front against the anti-immigration measures of US President Donald Trump, T.
When Donald Trump is sworn in as president on January 20, he will take over the running of the US intelligence agencies 鈥 the CIA, FBI, NSA etc 鈥 that have brought charges to discredit the outcome of his election.
The Electoral College has rubberstamped Trump鈥檚 election and Congress has ratified it. The storm over allegations of Russian聽interference in last year鈥檚 elections will pass as The Leader takes charge and cleans house in these agencies.
But there are some things that should be noted about this brouhaha.
The world was again entering an era of 鈥渄ark capitalist and imperialist barbarism鈥 which acts against human dignity, the integrity of Mother Earth and the sovereignty of countries, Bolivian President Evo Morales told the United Nations General Assembly on September 21.
Morales, Bolivia鈥檚 first indigenous president, called for a 鈥渘ew world order鈥 that, rather than building walls, built a global citizenry where all people live together as a common family.
On being sworn into power on January 15, 2007, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said: 鈥淟atin America is not living through an era of change, it is living through a genuine change of eras.鈥
His enthusiasm was shared by many, and with good reason: after years of intense social struggles against right-wing neoliberal governments, new left forces were winning elections across the region.
The Bolivian mining cooperative protests and the August 25 killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister of the Interior Rodolfo Illanes by cooperative miners requires us to question our assumptions about the cooperatives.
Bolivia has approved a new law that allows transgender people to change their name, sex and gender on birth certificates and other official records. LGBTI rights activists in Bolivia see the law as a groundbreaking sign of growing tolerance in Latin America.
Forty people began the process to change their personal information on identity documents and bank accounts, and alter their professional titles on the day the law passed.