The Vice Minister is a busy man. He runs from place to place, with his cell-phone in one hand and a bag of coca in another, busily chewing the leaves as he answers calls and delegates tasks to his team of bureaucrats. As he fills his mouth with the [...]

If the saying is true that all politics are local, then to get a real understanding of Evo Morales and his MAS party, one must look at the local characters that, from the beginning, have constituted the MAS social movement.  In many regions [...]

To many observers, the election of Evo Morales may seem like a victory orchestrated only by Bolivia's rural and lower class voters. Bolivians will be the first to tell you that this is not the case. In La Paz before the elections, some of the finest automobiles in the country were decked [...]

Since the election of Evo Morales in Bolivia's December election, pundits the world over have been trying to put a label on the new face of Latin American populism. Is he a socialist, a communist, an extremist, a Bolivarian, a drug trafficker, what? [...]