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Evo Morales moves to reassert control w/in the MAS-IPSP, taking a role in choosing candidates for local elections and vetting governing officials for so-called "infiltrators." opinion.com.bo/articulo/escenario-politico1/mas-organiza-seleccion-precandidatos-evo-busca-infiltrados-gobierno-arce/20201204002613798479.html
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The role of Morales in choosing candidates, the so-called dedazo, is one of the most criticized internal practices of the party.
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Meanwhile, attacks on movements that protested the government as "infiltrators" and on "free thinkers" (librepensantes, and yes, that was an insult) centralized power but weakened the party.
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The new MAS leadership has taken issue with these practices in 2020. woborders.blog/2020/10/22/mas-leaders-turn-page-from-evo/
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Choquehuanca re libre pensantes: "Donde todos piensan igual, nadie piensa. La wiphala nos dice que todos somos semejantes y todos somos diferentes. La wiphala nos dice a nosotros que yo tengo que respetar lo que el hermano del frente piensa. No tengo que imponer nada..…
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"Yo no puedo pensar por el hermano o por la hermana o por mi compañera"
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Choquehuanca on "free thinkers": "Where everyone thinks the same, no one is thinking. The wiphala [a multicolored indigenous flag] teaches us that we are all similar and we are all different.…
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"The wiphala tells us that I must respect what the brother in front of me thinks. I don't have to impose anything. I cannot think for a brother or a sister or my partner."