Incredible change in a country which was controlled exclusively by and for the European descended oligarchs, who didn't even allow the indigenous people to walk on sidewalks until a revolution in 1952, nor to vote, either.
They also took their land, as Hugo Banzer did in the 1960's, put in place by a US-supported and financed coup, and he brought in white settlers from South Africa and Europe in his attempt to create a "white Bolivia."
Poor women giving birth to children with such an improved chance to live would seem like a whole new world in this environment. Getting them off to a healthy start, getting a handle over childhood diseases is a huge step forward.
I just remembered reading years ago references to the fact young Bolivian poor boys have had to drop out of school sometimes to work shining shoes, to make money to help their families. They have been so embarrassed by their poverty they started wearing masks over their faces while they did their work in town, not wanting other children and adults they had known to recognize them.
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One time Evo Morales and his Vice President Linera and others went to visit these boys and switched places with them to show solidarity with the children, and support for them, bonding.
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The changes coming for the Bolivian people have been withheld so long, and are so needed. I truly hope the corporate world won't be able to interfere in this life-saving, life-restoring process to the people who really matter here.
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