Free Market Woes.

Is globalization doing Bolivia more harm than good?

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, ANGEL CHIARA SUPPORTED HIS FAMILY BY digging tin for the state-owned mining company. But in 1985, he and 45,000 other miners were laid off. Today he is still without a salaried job and, like the majority of Bolivia's poor, ekes out a living in the informal economy.

On a recent Sunday, Chiara, 46, sat by a collection of rusty metal nails and gears at a street market in the poor city of El Alto, outside La Paz. A passerby inspects a rusty cog, asks the price and walks away. "For a miner, th