To reach Evo Morales, you must pass through several checkpoints, push deep into the Chapare jungle and find Lauca Eñe — a remote village in his historic stronghold of Cochabamba, where the former Bolivian president has been in hiding for weeks.
An arrest warrant hangs over him. Dozens of supporters, some of them armed, stand guard around his hideout. The country is living through one of its most turbulent political periods in decades: a standoff pitting Morales and his followers against the government of President Rodrigo Paz, which has threatened to move in and detain him.
