Car crash
Evo Morales tangles with the taxi drivers
REAL power in Bolivia often seems to lie with the transportistas, the owner-drivers of buses and taxis who ferry people and goods around a big, sparsely populated country of difficult geography and alarming roads. Twice in recent months they have clashed with Evo Morales, the country's socialist president, who has a record of successfully dispatching his political opponents. Both times the transportistas have won.
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