NEWYORKER/ ABSTRACT Only Offered / A long, long profile of President Evo Morales and Bolivia's massive lithium potential for electric cars by recent Pultizer Prize winner and Austin resident Lawrence Wright.
New information : besides some pithy details of Morales background and harsh treament as an Ayamara indian, this observation by journalist Fernando Molina: "Evo is Ayamara (native), and the Ayamara see the world as a fight between the forces of good and evil, like in 'Star Wars.' For him, the forces of good are coca growers and the coca leaf. The evil is the D.E.A. and the U.S."
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