Bolivian Yubinca Villena, a dance teacher who is in favor of the re-election of President Evo Morales, receives flowers from a girl at a studio in La Paz, Bolivia October 11, 2019. Picture taken October 11, 2019. REUTERS/David Mercado
EL ALTO/LA PAZ (Reuters) - Reynaldo Kantuta, a 27-year-old software developer, in many ways represents Bolivia's big strides in social mobility under Evo Morales, since the left-wing leader became the country's first indigenous president in 2006.
Kantuta's father, an Aymara Indian, migrated from a drought-stricken Andean village at just 15, a journey that forced him to eat discarded banana peels to survive and that ended in the capital La Paz, where he often faced humiliating discrimination.
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