Political Parties and Legislators

In 1997 the coca-leaf growers movement, with Evo Morales at its head, became a political party: the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS-IPSP). This development was in keeping with the heritage of miners unions and the indigenous mobilizations of the 1990s in Bolivia. (Do Alto and Stefanoni, 2006) ²