Bolivians vote to continue progressive reforms

With shouts of “Jallalah Evo” and “Jallalah Bolivia,” which roughly translate to “We will continue in the struggle,” thousands of exhilarated Bolivians celebrated their triumph over a recall referendum on Aug. 10. They gathered in Plaza Murillo facing Palacio Quemado, the presidential palace, awaiting their president, Evo Morales, after defeating the recall by a wide margin.

Recall referendums are usually demanded by the opposition. This one in Bolivia, on the contrary, was proposed by Morales himself to confront attempts by the opposition to make his administration ungovernable.

Morales is the first Indigenous person to be president of Bolivia, after being democratically elected in this predominantly Indigenous country in 2006.
The opposition, led by a thoroughly fascist, wealthy white business elite allied to U.S. corporate interests, has tried to obstruct every new project of the Morales administration that would help lift up the living standards of the majority—Indigenous, peasants and urban poor.
This obstruction includes resistance by the opposition to ratifying a new Constitution approved last December by the Constituent Assembly.