The police have not tried to cross the village's makeshift barricades or to confront the spear-wielding coca growers who parade here, carrying handmade metal shields. "We'll be here until our ...

As dusk falls, some 500 Indigenous people stand in formation in Lauca Ene, a hamlet in central Bolivia, and raise their spears to the cry of "Long live Evo Morales!" The former Bolivian ...