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@PepinaSediciosa This argument has been made before (about critics of Evo), but it isn't consistent with events since 2019, when you saw mass defections from Evo at the polls (led by El Alto and Potosí), a very complex pattern of distancing and rescue in street activism, and a plurality of…Permalink On twitter.com
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@PepinaSediciosa newly critical electoral and non-electoral voices on the left, and finally meaningful electoral success for ex-MAS politicians in the 2021 elections, notably in El Alto, Pando, Chuquisaca.Permalink On twitter.com
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@PepinaSediciosa This isn't a marginal, "middle class" "mestizo" "intellectual" phenomenon now, if it ever were.Permalink On twitter.com
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@PepinaSediciosa Though the fact that the MAS lost La Paz, its alliance w/ the former MSM (sending Revilla careening rightward), and the formerly radical UMSA student world is actually significant. It opened up space for a shocking right-wing victory in the La Paz mayor's race.On twitter.com
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@PepinaSediciosa The MAS was so formidable in part because it captured the imagination of a broad swath of Bolivians (largely by positioning itself as the heir to a sweeping protest wave).Permalink On twitter.com
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@PepinaSediciosa Losing middle class and mestizo voters due to radical pro-rural and pro-indigenous policies might have been an acceptable loss. But losing them due to its own centralization of power, Evo's unwillingness to retire etc is a political failure that will energize the right for years.Permalink On twitter.com