Roger Burbach Articles
With Victory, Morales and Social Movements Confront New Challenges in Bolivia
By Tanya Kerssen
Bolivian president Evo Morales and his political party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), won a resounding victory in the presidential elections this past Sunday, December 6. The nearest challengers, Manfred Reyes Villa and his running mate Leopoldo Fernández—whose current address is a La Paz prison, where he stands accused of ordering the murder of pro-government peasants —represent an old political and economic order that has used sedition and violence in an effort to obstruct and destabilize the Morales government.