Saturday, January 24, 2009

Churches Oppose Morales in Bolivia

See this Wall Street Journal article about the opposition church leaders are bringing to bear against President Morales' effort to revise the Bolivian constitution. Morales, himself an Aymara Indian, is trying to "straddle" the prevalent Catholicism and belief in the indigenous "Andean earth deity Pachamama," claiming belief in both.

Morales is a proxy for Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Thus Bolivia continues to be a place where interesting things are happening.