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General News    H4'ed 10/14/14

Evo Morales has proved that Socialism doesn't damage economies

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The socialist Evo Morales, who was re-elected to serve a third term as president of Bolivia, has long been cast as a figure of fun by the media in the global north. Much like the now deceased Hugo Chà ¡vez, Morales is often depicted as a buffoonish populist whose flamboyant denouncements of the US belie his incompetence. And so, reports of his landslide win inevitably focused on his announcement that it was "a victory for anti-imperialism", as though anti-US sentiment is the only thing Morales has given to Bolivia in his eight years in government.

More likely, Morales's enduring popularity is a result of his extraordinary socio-economic reforms, which -- according to the NY Times -- have transformed Bolivia from an "economic basket case" into a country that receives praise from such unlikely contenders as the World Bank and the IMF.
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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