Bolivia’s compromised constitution By Sarah Hines AS MANY as 100,000 supporters of Bolivian President Evo Morales joined the president in a march October 20 in the capital city of La Paz to demand that the Bolivian Congress ratify a new constitution. Miners, peasants, petroleum workers, students and other activists marched more than 100 miles across the chilly Bolivian altiplano in support of a proposed constitution that promised to re-found the country in the interests of the country’s indigenous majority. But meanwhile, behind closed doors in Congress, Morales’ Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party was engaged in negotiations with the parties of the oligarchy that would fundamentally change the constitution’s character. The following day, Congress ratified a new draft of the constitution, and Morales signed a measure that...
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