the rise and fall of the "pink tide"

For a period, left-of-center governments in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela formed what the media called a “pink tide” that concretized the World Social Forum (WSF) slogan: “Another world is possible.”  ..

iran: rebellion and reaction

In fact, Mousavi’s program is more akin to that of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and Rafael Correa of Ecuador: use oil revenue to diversify and develop the national economy through strategic investment and development projects. ..

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