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Weekly Report - 02 October 2014 (WR-14-39)
BOLIVIA: MAS in search of a key vote
The Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) led by President Evo Morales has spent its final weeks of campaigning ahead of the 12 October general elections focusing on the eastern department of Santa Cruz. These efforts are not a surprise given that the department, which was previously an opposition bastion where racial tensions between ‘cambas’ (mestizo Cruceños) and ‘collas’ (the Andean indigenous) were particularly pronounced, remains the country’s economic powerhouse. Santa Cruz has also recently assumed growing political importance following the re-assignation last year of seats in the national legislature.
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