THE STRUGGLE TO CREATE A RADICAL DEMOCRACY IN BOLIVIA.
Evo Morales's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government is often held up as the leading edge of the so-called left turn in Latin America. Yet this article argues that there is profound tension in the MAS administration: a push for social justice to overcome both colonialism and neoliberalism, on the...
| Published in: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 45; pp. 59 - 79 |
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Cambridge University Press
2010 Special Issue
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