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The only thing twisted in this article is your bizzare logic. Next topic?

Mr. Bast, New York is a long way from Bolivia. If you know Bolivia, you'd know that the popular support for autonomy in the regions is really a masked power play based primarily in racism. We Americans give thanks that Abraham Lincoln did not think like you did. Otherwise, slavery would have likely hung on for a few decades more in the United States in order to appease the "popular support" for southern confederacy. Yes, by challenging their racism Lincoln took the U.S. into a bloody civil war, but most historians with a morally correct compass would say Lincoln did the right thing.

As for "revolution," the word does not necessarily imply autocracy --- you can have a "democratic revolution." And who said Morales is autocratic anyway? Open your mind up to diverse points of view, like a good reporter should do, and don;'t just listen to the tired old conservatives you quote.

Your analysis of Bolivia has all the trappings of an Ugly American. Yankee stay home.