South America Moves Left

In the Andean nations, populations of Aymara, Quechua, Amazonian tribal and other ethnicities of indigenous people are organized to the hilt; in Bolivia recently, one more president fell to the pressure from below, which continues to galvanize the Indian masses and articulate the message that economic misery for hard-working families is not tolerable. It is not a tidy movement after 500 years of repression, but increasingly it is building its ranks complete with professional bases. Generally throughout the region, an independent direction for government and civil society is starting to take hold. Latin America is not so illiterate anymore; it was always smart enough to know when hunger turns to starvation and to know the difference between mayhem manufactured by U.S. policy and that of revolutionary (sometimes terrorist) forces bent on taking power by force of arms. But Latin America today is increasingly educated and the discourse in its high schools, universities and political forums is rich with historical bases, economic data and a serious dedication to improving the economic lifeblood of their countries. http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410522

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