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Article: Responding to Bolivian democracy: avoiding the mistakes of early U.S. Cuban policy.
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, U.S. Government policy has been to promote democracy in Latin America. The election of Eve Morales as president of Bolivia is perhaps the strongest evidence to date that countries on the Andean Ridge are achieving that often-stated policy goal. By all accounts, Morales's election gave him the first true public mandate in Bolivia's history. But Morales's platform, even since taking office, has included anti-foreign and anti-U.S. commitments that have disconcerted some U.S. policymakers (and to some extent European and Latin American policymakers as well). In turn, these policymakers have declared Morales a threat. That kind of reaction is premature, ...