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Part II. On the Issues Left Turns

Evo Morales: Hope and Disillusion

At the height of the Pink Tide, Evo Morales swept into office as Bolivia’s first Indigenous president promising a socialist revolution. Despite dramatic advances, Morales’ drive to remain in power after 12 years raises difficult questions for the Left. Longtime Naclista Linda Farthing revisits her 2009 interview with scholar Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui in search of lessons from Bolivia’s turn left.

 

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Linda Farthing

Linda Farthing is a NACLA contributing editor based in Bolivia who writes for the Guardian, the Nation, Jacobin and Al Jazeera. Her latest report is ‘The Left in power: bureaucrats’ perspectives on the challenges to effective progressive governance in Bolivia’ (Transnational Institute, 2018).

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