01 April 2010

BOLIVIA: Sunday's Elections --The Last Stand For Morales Opponents?

AP/ MIAMI HERALD/    President Evo Morales has two thirds of his nation supporting him but opposition governors in the east continue to delay his reform programs. So Morales has recruited locally famous candidates - including a beloved 62-year-old state university headmaster and a 26-year-old former Miss Bolivia -- to run for office. Sunday's vote will determine "the strength and size of the opposition against Morales," said political analyst Jim Schultz of the Democracy Center in Cochabamba.