When voters in Bolavia elected Morales to be their next president in mid-December, some saw onetime coca famers rise to the power as a blessing for south American's poorest nation. As a native Amaya indian, Morales gives a high-profile representation to the long suffering indegenous majority. But he also takes after leftiest leader, which may bode ill for US-Bolivian relations.

He proclaimed himself American's nightmare and he also pledged to encourage coca production, which foes say that amount to quitting the drug war.

foes

woes:
1. Deep distress or misery, as from grief; wretchedness. See Synonyms at regret.
2. Misfortune; calamity: economic and political woes.