Right up to polling day, it seemed that Bolivians would fall for the charmer. Manfred Reyes Villa, a slick former soldier with a handsome moustache, promised to dump the free-market "neoliberal" policies that South America's poorest country has followed for the past 15 years and embark on a spending spree to boost the economy. But as results trickled out after June 30th's vote, Mr Reyes found himself neck-and-neck with the very embodiment of such IMF-inspired policies: ex-president Gonzalo ("Goni") Sanchez de Lozada, a grizzled, American-educated businessman with a thick gringo accent, whose 1993-97 administration pushed through privatisations and other liberal reforms. With almost all votes counted, both candidates had around 22%. Faced with a choice of 11 parties, each with its own presidential candidate, Bolivians seem to have voted both for radical change and for more of the same. Most votes were shared among candidates who promised a rupture, including Evo Morales, the hard-left leader of Bolivia's coca-leros (coca growers), who campaigned against the American-backed policy of eradicating coca plantations and was closing fast on the leaders with a surprising 21%. And yet Bolivians gave Mr Sanchez's misleadingly named Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR) more seats in Congress than any other party, though not a majority.
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机译：直到投票日，玻利维亚人似乎都会迷住这个吸引者。曼弗雷德·雷耶斯·比拉（Manfred Reyes Villa）是一位曾经留着光滑小胡子的光滑前士兵，他承诺放弃南美最贫穷的国家在过去15年中一直遵循的自由市场“新自由主义”政策，并着手大举刺激经济。但是，由于结果在6月30日的投票后滴漏而下，雷耶斯先生与国际货币基金组织（IMF）这类政策的体现完全并驾齐驱：前总统冈萨洛（“ Goni”）桑切斯·德·洛萨达（Sanchez de Lozada）是一位受过美国教育的灰头土脸的商人有着浓厚的英语口音，他的1993-97年政府推动了私有化和其他自由改革。几乎所有选票都算完了，两位候选人都占了22％左右。面对11个政党的选择，每个政党都有自己的总统候选人，玻利维亚人似乎已经为激进改革和更多相同方案投票。大多数选票是在答应破裂的候选人中分享的，其中包括玻利维亚古柯种植者的左派左翼领袖埃沃·莫拉莱斯（Evo Morales），他们反对美国支持的铲除古柯种植政策，并迅速关闭了领导人。惊人的21％。然而，玻利维亚人给予桑切斯先生被误导的国民革命运动（MNR）在国会中的席位比任何其他政党都多，尽管不是多数党。
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