Bolivia: The new deal or a race war?

Here’s one we missed in The Economist earlier this week: “A Question of Rights“. Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, is an Amerindian and socialist who is now in his fourth year. Last week voters passed a referendum he pushed for a new Bolivian constitution that give the majority indigenous population special land, mineral and petroleum rights. The new constitution has further polarized Bolivians along class and racial lines.