In late February, Mr. Morales lost a referendum vote that could have allowed him to run for a fourth term. Having initially rejected any insinuation of influence peddling, Mr. Morales’s government arrested Ms. Zapata and charged her with exactly that. What they fail to see is that Mr. Morales’s defeat in February resulted from damning facts, not critical news coverage. For starters, she contradicted Mr. Morales’s claim that a baby the two produced had died in infancy. She also promised a detailed account of how Mr. Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous leader, had evolved from a good guy to a menace.

Source: New York Times May 25, 2016 15:52 UTC