The Evo Morales Experiment
The Birth of a New Era in Bolivian Politics
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This collection of essays spans the period 2005-2008, when Evo Morales was consolidating power despite extreme opposition by both elites in Eastern Bolivia and the United States. While Hugo Chávez is no longer on the political scene, and the Castro brothers in Cuba represent an older brand of Latin American socialism, it has fallen on Morales to be a new leader of the Latin Left. Arturo von Vacano, a leading journalist, novelist, and commentator on Bolivia over the last fifty years provides, through commentary pieces and essays, an analysis of the precarious first three years of the “Evo Experiment.” This refers to the emergence of the first indigenous president of Bolivia, a leader who rose to power from the coca growers movement in the 1990s to become the head of the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) and eventually establish an economically-viable model of democratic socialism in a country long dominated by racism and foreign dependence.
This collection of essays spans the period 2005-2008, when Evo Morales was consolidating power despite extreme opposition by both elites in Eastern Bolivia and the United States. While Hugo Chávez is no longer on the political scene, and the Castro brothers in Cuba represent an older brand of Latin American socialism, it has fallen on Morales to be a new leader of the Latin Left. Arturo von Vacano, a leading journalist, novelist, and commentator on Bolivia over the last fifty years provides, through commentary pieces and essays, an analysis of the precarious first three years of the “Evo Experiment.” This refers to the emergence of the first indigenous president of Bolivia, a leader who rose to power from the coca growers movement in the 1990s to become the head of the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) and eventually establish an economically-viable model of democratic socialism in a country long dominated by racism and foreign dependence.
Provides a detailed account of the political manoeuvers, junctures, and crises that were the birth pangs of a new era in Bolivia, the Evo Experiment
Places into context the Machiavellian politics of Bolivia in the time before and after MoralesAnalyzes the antagonism between the indigenous socialist movement of Western Bolivia and the mestizo or creole elites—with fascistic tendencies— of Eastern Bolivia
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Arturo von Vacano
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