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 News from Around the Americas | April 2006 
Evo Morales with 80 Percent Popularity
 Prensa Latina
| | Bolivian students burn an effigy of Bolivian President Evo Morales during a protest rally to support Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (LAB) workers in downtown Cochabamba, Bolivia March 31, 2006. LAB employees maintain a hunger strike to demand a solution to the company's worsening financial crisis that is creating the first serious industrial crisis for President Evo Morales. (Reuters/David Mercado) |
La Paz - A Recent poll showed 80 percent of Bolivians support President Evo Morales despite efforts by the opposition and hostile media to censure his government.
The poll -ran Mar 13-15 by Apoyo, Opinion y Mercado firm in La Paz and El Alto Municipalities, and Cochabamba and Santa Cruz cities- shows increasing support since his December election.
La Paz with 82 percent and El Alto (86) are Morales´ stronger pillars and despite the larger number of his opponents are in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, he still enjoys 77 and 75 percent support there, respectively.
The study coincides with the approval of the Constituent Assembly and autonomous referendum, the massive literacy campaign with Cuban assistance and plans to stop he privatization of state-run companies.
Evo Morales´ popularity thanked to his government´s success counters efforts by the opposition and the corporate media in a failing campaign to highlight alleged errors or excesses, incompetence or authoritarianism.
The opposition and the rightwing media, for instance, have attacked have attacking over charges against a US citizen for the bombing of two Bolivian hotels.
Still, an editorial by the opposition daily La Razon admits that the ruling Movement Towards Socialism has grown stronger and coherent for the July 2 Constituent Assembly in contrast with a dispersed, unenthusiastic opposition. |
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