Back to the barricades

摘要

AT 11.4OPM ON October 22nd, two days after Bolivia's presidential and congressional elections, Paul Handal met a dozen neighbours on the street in Villa Fra-terna, an upper-middle-class neighbourhood of Santa Cruz, the country's biggest city. Suspicions were mounting that the president, Evo Morales, was trying to avoid a run-off vote by fraudulent means. Opposition leaders had called a general strike to demand one. Mr Handal and his neighbours dragged trees and tyres to an intersection to build a barricade.