How Evo Morales Made Bolivia A Better Place ... Before He Was Forced To Flee

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1. And if anyone, outside Bolivia, should be grateful to Evo, it's Argentine right-wingers

In Argentina, you see, the largest source by far of immigrants of color is Bolivia.

Argentine politics closely resembles the U.S.'s in that both have increasingly radicalized white right-wing voters whose overriding concern is the "browning" of their respective countries.

The obsession is such, that it trumps (pun intended) even the economy.

The enduring loyalty of white middle-class voters to the (now defeated) failure of a president, Macri, is clear proof of that.

His Bush-style debt bubble and crisis has decimated middle-class net worth (to say nothing of the poor). Many have dropped private insurance, downsized to smaller homes, and (horror of horrors!) taken their kids out of private schools.

But they've stuck with Macri, who got 40% of the vote in the October 27 runoff - which is practically identical to what is generally considered the "white middle class" in Argentina (40-45%).

But their gratitude is misplaced: they should be thankful to Evo Morales.

Thanks to Morales' policies, the number of Bolivians emigrating to Argentina has fallen from 40,000 annually a decade ago to less than 20,000 in 2018.

My guess is that, as a consequence of Cheeto's coup against Morales - and Jeanine Áñez's narco-dictatorship - that number's about to go up.