We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Nick BuxtonNick BuxtonNick Buxton lives in La Paz, Bolivia, where he works for a political NGO. His website is www.nickbuxton.info Recent articlesRevolutionary times in Bolivia? The indigenous leader Evo Morales has emerged from a tumultuous period in Bolivia's politics to lead the presidential election race. Nick Buxton in La Paz asks whether his radical project can survive the pressures on him from the Bolivian elite, the social movements, and the United States. Bolivia in revoltThe campaign by poor, indigenous Bolivians against utility privatisation has become a political insurrection. Nick Buxton reports from La Paz on the crisis in the landlocked, resource-rich but deeply polarised Andean republic. |
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