New Friends: Twenty Years of Socialism Went Down the Drain in Bolivia Yesterday

<![CDATA[Almost thirty years ago, an indigenous Andean farm laborers' unionist and cocolera (coco leaf farmer/activist, grown for precisely what you think) was elected to the Bolivian Congress, and became leader of the Movement for Socialism (MAS). A short decade later, Juan Evo Morales, a fierce critic of the U.S. as well as its 'War on Drugs,' and ardent socialist, would become the first indigenous president of Bolivia.]]>