Broadly smiling Bolivian President Evo Morales is flanked by mining leaders Juan Carlos Trujillo, left, and Miguel Perez, right, during a ceremony marking the March for Life, in Calamarca, south of La Paz, 28 years ago when 30 000 people protested the closure of State-owned mines by the then Bolivian government under the late President Victor Paz Estenssoro, who declared a state of siege and made countrywide labour leader arrests. The administration of Morales has focused on the implementation of leftist policies and poverty reduction.