The democratic countries must courageously show a willingness to apply the principles on which their internal system is based to the global sphere
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John CrabtreeJohn CrabtreeJohn Crabtree is a research associate at Oxford University's Centre for Latin American Studies. He is (on Bolivia) author of Patterns of Protest: Politics and Social Movements in Bolivia (Latin America Bureau, 2005) and co-editor of Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and Present (Pittsburgh University Press, (2008); and (on Peru) author of Peru under Garcia: Opportunity Lost (Macmillan, 1992) and Fujimori's Peru (ILAS, 1998), and editor of Making Institutions Work in Peru: Democracy, Development and Inequality since 1980 (Institute for the Study of the Americas, London University / Brookings Institution, 2006).
Recent articlesBolivia’s political ferment: revolution and recall Bolivia's latest round of voting highlights the issues - political and economic, constitutional and regional - dividing the country, and challenges its political leaders to a new accommodation, says John Crabtree. Alan García and Peru: a tale of two erasThe Peruvian president's neo-liberal reinvention has yet to win the hearts or raise the life-chances of millions of his poor compatriots, says John Crabtree. Bolivia’s democratic tidesA series of votes on regional autonomy is testing Evo Morales's political project and challenging Bolivians to find new ways of living together, says John Crabtree. Santa Cruz’s referendum, Bolivia's choiceA multidimensional argument over autonomy for Bolivia's eastern region is reaching a climax. John Crabtree explains what's at stake Bolivia’s controversial constitutionThe approval of a constitution embedding new rights for Bolivia's indigenous majority has opened new political battlelines, says John Crabtree. |
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