Good news from the south.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

South of the border, that is. ¡Desea vivo la revolución popular!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060309/wl_nm/latam_left_dc

HAVANA (Reuters) - When Aymara Indian Evo Morales was sworn in as Bolivia's first indigenous president on Jan 22, Venezuela's populist leader Hugo Chavez stood by him on the balcony raising his fist in the air to a crowd of miners and peasants who chanted "Chavez, Chavez!"
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Days later, while thanking Cuban leader Fidel Castro's Communist government for sending doctors to help Bolivia's poor, Morales said there soon would be "more Cubas" in Latin America.

Chavez, who is promoting leftist integration as an alternative to a U.S.-sponsored hemispheric free trade bloc, proclaimed in Havana last month that "the hour of the people" had come in Latin America.

In Mexico, a close U.S. ally and free trade partner, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is the front-runner in the July 2 presidential race. Lopez Obrador says he wants good relations with Washington but analysts believe tension would rise if he won power.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Can you define "leftist integration"

I'm not really up on economic terms.

[400Years]

2. Mercosur is one example

They are trying to set up a counterpart to stuff like NAFTA and CAFTA.

Instead of being subject to the economic imperialism of the IMF and World Bank, they want to setup their own institutions that don't subject them to the domination of the north.