The Bolivian Revolution. In Why Nations Fail we have emphasized that the roots of economic divergence between North and South America lie in the different ways that colonial institutions formed.
Latin America is poorer today because the Spanish developed economic institutions designed to exploit indigenous people. Nowhere was this system more pernicious than in Bolivia. The “old regime” based on the extractive colonial institutions lasted until 1952 when a revolution, masterminded by a political party, the MNR (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario – National Revolutionary Movement) overthrew the traditional political and economic system.
As in many Latin American countries, in Bolivia the rise of new interests and cleavages in the early 20th century had led existing elites, often rurally based, to enter into a governing coalition with the military. This coalition was demolished in Bolivia in 1952.
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An analysis of government documents collected in a new book reveals a complex CIA scheme. Photograph via Flickr by Christian Zamora Che and the CIA in Bolivia Why did Che choose Bolivia? Bolivia must investigate violence at disability protest. In search of the 'Islamic menace' in Bolivia. La Paz, Bolivia - Were I transcribing the wet dream of US Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - self-appointed bulwark against the alleged Islamo-Bolivarian threat to homeland security - I might describe my arrival to La Paz two weeks ago as follows: Descending from the city of El Alto into the Bolivian capital, my bus was stopped by a battalion of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
All passengers were required to pledge simultaneous allegiance to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Adolf Hitler, and Evo Morales. Once the Iranians had verified that there were no Jewish businesspeople on board available for kidnapping, the vehicle was allowed to pass.Our progress was once again interrupted, however, by a parade of Iranian diplomats, whose infestation of Bolivia began when the Islamic Republic made the alarming decision to open embassies in Latin America - something no other country in the world has done.