Neither peace nor a future  

I'm glad some people (outside Bolivia) are reading the ouster of Sanchez de Lozada as the function of a hopelessly flawed American drug policy there. On the one hand there's the gross cultural insensitivity of trying to totally annihilate the coca plant, which has tremendous significance for indigenous peoples. On the other hand there's the complete failure on the part of the US to provide any alternative engine for growth - programs to create pineapple and coffee crops have just led to massive oversupply fiascos... and then there are those vicious American agricultural subsidies. All this in the poorest country in South America, the one with the largest obstacles (climate and geography, massive indigenous population, etc) to economic development. It's a wonder Americans aren't reviled the world over...

Thanks to Gary Farber for the links.