Volume 53, Number 13 · August 10, 2006

A New Bolivia?

By Alma Guillermoprieto

On a scorching afternoon in an outlying corner of the Bolivian tropics, I stood with Sacarìas Flores, a former tin miner from the freezing, arid, Andean highlands, and listened to him tell how he, a soybean farmer now, and a little less poor, had come to be the current national vice-president of Bolivia's ruling party, the Movimiento al Socialismo, or MAS.



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