Mark Weisbrot

For the first time in more than a century, a journalist could be tried and imprisoned—the charges carry a maximum of 175 years in prison—for publishing facts that the U.S. government did not want published.

Not only has leading presidential candidate Andrés Arauz emphasized that he is committed to maintaining the dollar as the national currency, he and his party have a long track record of taking strong measures to make sure that dollarization did not come under threat.

The powerful minority in the Republican Party will keep blocking the economic policies that the majority of voters wants.

Bolivian right would not have succeeded, where Trump has failed, if not for an important difference: the Bolivian right had powerful help from outside the country in pulling off their coup.

Right now, legislation has already passed the House of Representatives that would do just that.

The Organization of American States had a key role in the destruction of the country’s democracy last November.

The president appears not to know what he's doing.

Sanders would use both markets and government to reverse the upward redistribution of income to the already rich.