Bolivia overview from Le Monde Diplomatique

An excellent overview on the current state of affairs in Bolivia:

Le Monde diplomatique
November 2005
AN ELECTION FOR CHANGE AND PROMISE
Bolivia: an Amayra for president
By Maurice Lemoine

Bolivians will go to the polls on 4 December - unless a last-minute ploy by the right leads to a postponement - in what will be a historic general election. For despite chronic divisions and rivalries, Bolivia's social movements are in a position to take power and make Evo Morales South America's first indigenous president.

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The article hints at structures of popular organization that seem quite promising. An excerpt:

...the people do not always follow those who claim to represent them. In El Alto, as Nestor Guillon of Villa el Ingenio [Federation of Neighbourhood Committees](Fejuves) explains, the demonstrations were originally organised by the leaders -"Comrades, we must take to the streets". But the situation gradually changed. Now, local residents decide: "We must get out and march." The demand comes from below. "El Alto's capacity for mobilisation doesn't depend on the Fejuves," says Guillon, "but on what neighbourhood and block-based assemblies decide. Without them, Mamani can call all the demonstrations he likes; no one will follow him." The majority of El Alto's inhabitants voted in the referendum on hydrocarbons, despite their leader's calls for a boycott. In so doing, they implicitly backed MAS and look
likely to do so again in the forthcoming elections.