People Power in Bolivia Hits the Internet

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In our last post on Bolivia, we argued that a broad coalition, the type of movement with the potential to create real institutional change, could have formed in Bolivia. One of our pieces of evidence was that the grassroots politics which helped Evo Morales and his movement MAS to come to power could not easily be controlled — not even by Morales himself. As a result, grassroots movements may have started not only wrestling power from the old elites but also disciplining MAS. We gave the example of the campaign to “Anulo su Voto” last year, where people cast empty ballots to protest the MAS’s domination of the appointment of candidates to different judicial bodies.  More >>