A "pink wave" across three Latin American states has lifted to power radical presidents committed to a pro-indigenous but also developmentalist agenda. John Crabtree surveys their record and assesses the challenges they face in the coming years.
The Evo Morales administration won a clear victory in Bolivia's referendum on 25 January 2009 to approve the country's new political ground-rules. The "yes"
The referendum in Bolivia on 25 January 2009 represents another key milestone on the lengthy path of devising and implementing a new constitution. The opinion polls point to a victory
President Evo Morales of Bolivia is now able to prepare for a referendum in January 2009 on the country's new constitution, following a historic deal with the centre-right
President Alan García of Peru has marked the midway point of his five-year term in office by revamping his cabinet, partly in response to widespread social protests and bribery revelations.
The results of Bolivia's "recall referenda" on 10 August 2008 - which passed judgment both on President Evo Morales and on a number of local prefects
The president of Peru celebrated the second anniversary of his second government on 28 July 2008 with a speech to the national congress in Lima. The substance of Alan García
The leftwing government of Evo Morales suffered a significant political reverse on 29 June 2008, when an opposition candidate was elected the new prefect of the southern department of Chuquisaca.
The referendum in Bolivia's eastern region of Santa Cruz on Sunday 4 May 2008 will - whatever its outcome - stand as a landmark in the country'
Bolivia's ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and its allies anticipated the looming deadline for the rewriting of the country's constitution - 14 December 2007 - by
Alberto Kenyo Fujimori returned to Lima on 22 September 2007 after nearly seven years in exile, to find himself under lock and key. The man who held the presidency of
The year-long process of drafting a new constitution for Bolivia has been brought to a standstill over an issue that was never expected to be central to the deliberations: the
