I read the article you linked to in the Christian Science Monitor and would just quote the closing paragraphs.

According to the World Bank, extreme poverty increased 5.8 percent between 1999 and 2002, and the gap between the rich and poor grew wider. Across the continent, per capita income hardly inched upward during the 1980s and '90s, when policies of corporate globalization held sway, while it had surged in previous decades.

It remains to be seen if Latin America's New Left will be able to reverse this situation by fashioning bold solutions to poverty in Bolivia and beyond. Certainly, it deserves the chance to try. In this context, demonizing Morales will not advance our true national interests of promoting freedom and human development. But cheering an independent and democratic Bolivia just might.

Hurrah!!  I don't read the Chrisitan Science Monitor, but I had always thought it was a very conservative paper.  But whatever their leanings, good for them.  I totally support their views.  And once again thank you for this diary.