Audiovisual: Bolivia

With December 2005 elections, Bolivia’s political landscape changed utterly. In his victory speech, Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous president, promised Bolivia’s poor majority an end to the ‘injustice, the discrimination, the marginalisation we have suffered historically’. 65% of Bolivia’s 9.3 million population live below the poverty line and that can reach as high as 80% in rural areas. Many are becoming impatient with democracy because of the lack of economic results – recent polls indicate support for democracy across the continent is down from 61% to just 53%.

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