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Bolivia's Democratic Divide

6:10 PM, August 13, 2008 | Comments (2)
By Andrew Bast This weekend witnessed a worrying twist of fate in Bolivia. Voters went to the polls in a national referendum on the country’s leadership, and President Evo Morales won in a landslide . He took more than sixty percent of the vote, higher...

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    Mac Margolis | Nov 7, 2007 02:05 PM
    When Evo Morales took over as president of Bolivia in January of last year, no one imagined he was going to have an easy ride. After all, the fiery indigenous leader and onetime grower of coca leaf, the stuff which fuels the world cocaine trade, had reaped a whirlwind, riding into La Paz on a gale of social and ethnic unrest. Now it seems even the skeptics might have been optimistic. More
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