Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish
rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series
of nearly 200 coups and countercoups. Democratic civilian rule was established
in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep-seated poverty,
social unrest, and illegal drug production. In December 2005, Bolivians
elected Movement Toward Socialism leader Evo MORALES president - by the
widest margin of any leader since the restoration of civilian rule in
1982 - after he ran on a promise to change the country's traditional political
class and empower the nation's poor majority. However, since taking office,
his controversial strategies have exacerbated racial and economic tensions
between the Amerindian populations of the Andean west and the non-indigenous
communities of the eastern lowlands.
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