Healing Bolivia
Latin America has suffered fewer inter-state wars and undergone less state creation since the mid-19th century than any other region of the world. But Bolivia, where a provincial referendum in May gave overwhelming approval to an autonomy plan that has boosted secessionist political forces, may be poised to buck the latter trend.
BUENOS AIRES – Since the mid-19th century, Latin America has suffered fewer inter-state wars and undergone less state creation than any other region of the world. The continent has been a relatively quiet periphery because its countries tend neither to fight each other nor to divide from within. Bolivia, however, may be poised to buck the latter trend.