Britain will discover that it has a constitutional court in the form of the judicial committee of the Privy Council, an obscure body that will be called upon to adjudicate the inevitable and possibly bitter tests of strength between the various parliaments and assemblies.

ECONOMIST: Sunshine and showers

Hence, immediate concerns of a power grab in the form of constitutional revisions should be set aside and focus should be placed on strategic losses and intelligence weaknesses that Chavez, Cuba, and Iran may hope to exploit with their operatives in the FMLN.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: What to expect from the new FMLN government in El Salvador

Street confrontations rightly pushed Morales into negotiations but quickly Morales bypassed all the rules in order to obtain what he really wanted: which was a constitutional reform whose legitimacy will take the form of a contract between him and the indigenous populations while excluding the mestizo and white populations of the country.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Quietly following Chavez's lead