I was listening to the radio (NPR, didn’t catch which show) this morning tut-tut about the Bolivian uprising (see Rabble’s breathless denouement, and coverage at Big Left Outside, and Bolivia IMC). One point they kept bringing up was Mesa’s supposed lack of political expirence (echoed in the Times), as apparently he is known for his work as a historian, and most recently a TV journalist. I just about spilled my coffee at that point. This from a country that just elected an Austrian body builder to run the world’s 5th largest economy?