Carlos Mesa, Evo Morales, And A Divided Bolivia (2003—2005)

Carlos Mesa, Evo Morales, And A Divided Bolivia (2003—2005) Jeffery R. Webber, 2010 During the short-lived government of Carlos Mesa (October 17, 2003—June 6, 2005), Bolivian society was intensely divided along the lines of class, race, and region. Out of this context, two social blocs emerged: a left-indigenous bloc, constituted by worker and peasant organizations based in La Paz, Cochabamba, Oruro, Potosí, and Chuquisaca, and an eastern-bourgeois bloc, constituted by groups representing...

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