Linda Farthing is a writer, independent scholar, and journalist who has written four books on Bolivia and has reported for the Guardian, the Nation, and Al Jazeera.
Bolivia’s election of the center-right Rodrigo Paz Pereira marks the end of the MAS’s nearly 20-year rule. As MAS self-destructed, Paz appealed to an urban middle class that expanded as the Left achieved historic reductions in poverty and social inequality.
Under MAS, Bolivia has seen massive decreases in poverty — but its social movements have grown weaker.
Evo Morales’s presidency made real gains for working people. But could it have charted a more radical course?
Pension giant TIAA is leading a global wave of deforestation and the destruction of small farmers' livelihoods.