Yawd echik e, though should not e. This is Melanie Yasey the host of Red Power Hour.

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to the show Ollie this is your third time back on the show and I think you're the

most frequent guest we've had since a year of...

That's a huge honor.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, yeah.

And so can you introduce yourself again to listeners where you're calling from?

Yeah, I'm on you vargas, I'm a reporter here in Bolivia,

so doing work both in Spanish and English.

And calling right now from La Pais, the city,

where I've been trying to provide some coverage on the elections,

but I'm normally based in the

Tropic of Cochabamba which is a rural Coca-Cola area where ever Morales wants

union leader and which is still the sort of most organized section of the social movements.

And that's something that has taught me huge amounts about how Bolivia's left has managed to stay together during these extraordinarily difficult times and how it's been able to relaunch itself and take back the country.

So can you describe, like how do you feel after country.

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