LA PAZ, Bolivia — The choice before voters in Bolivia on Sunday is starkly laid out in graffiti scrawled all over the capital. The incumbent, Evo Morales, whose 15 years in power make him Latin America’s longest-serving president, is lionized in messages that proclaim, “Evo is the future.”But across La Paz, critics have tagged walls with a counter view that helps explain why his bid for a fourth consecutive term is his toughest re-election fight yet: “Evo is a dictator.”Mr. Morales, 59, a former coca farmer and firebrand union leader, stunned his compatriots in 2005 when he was elected Bolivia’s first indigenous president. He earned global acclaim for bringing indigenous people into the political mainstream in a country where they had long been treated as second-class citizens.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2019 15:33 UTC