Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Today Americans will celebrate Veterans Day. Our correspondent speaks to disabled soldiers

at one of the country's most advanced military hospitals. He ends up wondering why so many

Americans feel disengaged from the country's wars and its veterans. And there's a simple,

cheap, pollution-free way to get around DACA by Lidesh's capital, the Cycle Rikshaw. There could

be as many as a million of them plying DACA's streets. So why is the government trying to phase them out?

But first...

Bolivia doesn't have a leader. Yesterday, Avon Morales, who's been in power for 14 years,

resigned as president.

There have been weeks of protests throughout the country. In Santa Cruz, Bolivia's biggest city,

citizens have barricaded hundreds of intersections hoping to paralyze the city and starve the government of revenue.

Mr. Morales claimed victory in a tight election last month amid claims of electoral fiddling.

After the vote count was unexpectedly paused for a day, Mr. Morales emerged curiously as the

outright winner. On Saturday, observers from the organization of American states confirmed irregularities

in the poll, including Dr. Talley Sheetz and computer breaches. Mr. Morales bowed to the OAS

recommendation of calling new elections, but that did nothing to quell the protests.

Later in the day, he stepped down, prompting cheers from opposition protesters,

and an explosion of violence. Supporters of Mr. Morales burnt houses, businesses, and buses.

The opposition candidate Carlos Mesa said that Mr. Morales shouldn't run for office again.

In the eyes of many, Mr. Morales shouldn't have even been a candidate last month.

Three years ago, he ignored the results of a referendum that would have precluded another term.

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