Morales defiant ahead of Sunday referendum

By Naomi Mapstone and Andres Schipani in El Alto, Bolivia Evo Morales, Bolivia’s president, has flexed his electoral muscle with a rally attended by tens of thousands of supporters in the indigenous city of El Alto. Legions of cholitas, Andean peasant women distinctive for their flouncy skirts and bowler hats, Red Ponchos, a radical indigenous group, and miners in tin hats joined the throng on... [read full story]