Bolivia’s Silent Revolution

Issue Date January 1997
Volume 8
Issue 1
Page Numbers 142-56
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About the Author

René Antonio Mayorga is on the staff of the Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios in La Paz. He was a visiting faculty fellow in the Helen Kellogg Institute of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame, and is currently a professor of political science in the Joint Master’s Program of the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Bolivian Catholic University in La Paz.

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