IF ONE READS THE MAINSTREAM U.S. PRESS to understand recent events in Bolivia, the following composite story emerges: Bolivia is a deeply divided andfractured country of profound cleavages, bitter/ragmentation, and civil conflict, most of which can be attributed to the country's president, Evo Morales, elected in late 2005. A member of the Aymara ethnic group and Bolivia's/irst indigenous president, Morales is trying to give Indians a bigger role in government and a greater share of the economic pie. This has exacerbated tensions between Indians and the light-skinned descendants of the Spanish elite and in/lamed regional tensions between the free-marketoriented east and the socialist ...

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