It’s still a mystery for a lot of people what he will do or who will actually run the government.

This is going to displace the poorest of the poor without any international development plan for what to do with these people.

Obviously the MAS [Morales’ party] doesn’t want to provoke the U.S., but neither will it want to rely on the U.S..

They will reassert the state as economic, political and social actor after decades of governments that weakened or dismantled state institutions.

The U.S. is not really speaking with a unified voice to Latin America. I don’t think the administration has yet identified a definitive strategy.

The funds promised, and which may never be appropriated, are so little as to have almost no effect given the enormous size of the need.