Bolivia’s Evo Morales faces his toughest re-election battle yet

From The Economist: Morales’ hazard After 13 years of his rule, voters are getting restless “Bolivia is an insurrectionary nation,” declares Norma Berno, a tiny woman with piercing eyes at a “rally for democracy” on October 10th in La Paz, the administrative capital. In the early 2000s she demonstrated in favour of nationalising Bolivia’s large gas…

How Evo Morales running again — and again — undermines Bolivia’s democracy

Ben Raderstorf and Michael J. Camilleri report for The Washington Post, picture at the bottom from the internet: Ben Raderstorf is a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley and a non-resident fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue. Michael J. Camilleri is director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. On…