Evo Morales attacks ‘white supremacist ideology’ in clash with Bolsonaro ally
- Bolivia’s president stands up for indigenous rights
- Feud with Rodrigo Amorim reveals new political battleground
Bolivia’s leftist president Evo Morales has clashed with an ally of Brazil’s new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, highlighting the new ideological battlegrounds forming across Latin America as its leftist ‘pink tide’ is consumed by a conservative counter-current.
Rodrigo Amorim, a recently elected congressman for Bolsonaro’s Social Liberal party, belittled an urban indigenous community that occupied a disused indigenous museum in northern Rio de Janeiro.