As the ‘pink wave’ continues to wash over Latin America, the influence of private enterprise and US imperialism on bourgeois elections should not be forgotten.

Corruption of a nominally-independent country’s justice system is a major tool in the arsenal of imperialist control.

Another president falls to a US-backed coup in Latin America – but the people are not taking it lying down.

US imperialism and its local proxies are willing to do whatever it takes to put this popular leader out of office – permanently.

Corporate media maintain their silence as the persecuted journalist and publisher remains behind bars, though convicted of no crime.

Will the authorities now be forced to cease their decade-long persecution of the world’s most celebrated journalist?

Injustice and oppression will never be defeated unless at every turn they are resolutely resisted, whatever the cost.

The Brazilian masses face a concerted onslaught from the combined forces of US imperialism and the local ruling class.