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Here's an interesting--though, frankly, a little too "Sunday Styles" for my tastes--piece on Bolivia's "Cheneyesque" VP, Álvaro García Linera. The comparison to Cheney has to do with his authoritative role in his government, not the fact that he's some asshole cyborg:

MR. GARCÍA LINERA, on the other hand, appears every inch the man whose ancestors were part of the colonial ruling class and were involved two centuries ago in leading the independence struggle against Spain.

In public he dresses in well-tailored blazers, often looking out of place in gatherings of Aymara- and Quechua-speaking officials clad in colorful ponchos. Tall and slim, he towers over the stocky Mr. Morales and other members of the cabinet.

He speaks neither Aymara nor Quechua fluently, though he says he learned to read some of both languages during his education by Dutch priests at an Augustine academy in the city of Cochabamba, east of La Paz. Aymara grammar, in Mr. García Linera’s description, has a “Kantian logic to it.”