Conspiracy, one is tempted to say, is the poor person’s cognitive mapping in the postmodern age; it is a degraded figure of the total logic of capital, a desperate attempt to represent the latter’s system, whose failure is marked by its slippage into sheer theme and content.
—Fredric Jameson

"Exiled in Argentina, Mr. Morales continues to evince intense loyalty among many in Bolivia’s Indigenous majority, who see him as a transformative leader who gave them a political voice for the first time in the nation’s 200-year history. The presidential candidate of Mr. Morales’s party, Luis Arce, is leading the polls, raising fears among the former president’s opponents that he will return to power after October and take revenge on those who ousted him."

"At 14.6%, the unemployment rate for Blacks was the highest among the racial and ethnic groups tracked by the Labor Department. It was higher still for Black men at 15.2%, down from 16.3% in June, while for Black women the rate dropped to 13.5% from 14%."