The biased way in which the local and global media groups have reported on three recent events in Latin America - the attempted coup in Ecuador, the presidential elections in Brazil and the award of the Nobel Prize in literature to Mario Vargas Llosa - indicates what pro-democracy and pro-poor formations in the continent are up against in their battle to effect change.
1 In Ecuador
In the morning of 30 September, the Ecuadorian people woke up to a chaotic situation. On that Thursday, Ecuador police officers started what seemed to be a strike against the new national service law, which was to increase the time necessary for promotion and would also reduce the benefits connected to such promotions.
