In his blog Jim Shultz describes the man who is ahead in the polls for Bolivia's December 4 presidential election. A disturbing excerpt:
More troubling, during his brief year as President (Banzer resigned in 2001 with fatal cancer) the young Texan-Bolivian outdid his mentor in a chilling category – government killings. Under Quiroga in a year, Bolivian troops killed more people (thirteen) than Banzer did in the four years prior as elected President. When Quiroga speaks of civil disobedience as an obstacle to true democracy, we should not forget the ease with which he uses the bullet.