Kesenjangan antara warga miskin, sebagian besar orang asli di dataran tinggi, dan warga kaya di dataran rendah semakin tajam di Bolivia sejak Morales (55 tahun) menjadi presiden tahun lalu dengan agenda sosialis yang ambisius.
Bolivia has been increasingly divided between the poor, mostly indigenous highlands and the wealthy lowlands since Morales, 55, a one-time legislator on behalf of coca-growing districts and the country's first native Indian president, took power a year ago with an ambitious socialist agenda.