EDITOR'S NOTE:

This month "Dispatches" looks at two different electoral processes. Spencer Platt writes of Evo Morales' successful campaign for president of Bolivia. One image presents Morales holding coca leaves greeting his supporters. The portrait has a sharp political edge overlayed on the cheerful moment. Morales plans to legalize coca.

Scott Nelson covered the recent election in Iraq. His dispatch describes the problems and decisions confronting photographers in the war zone.

The Iraqi election is the starting point for Jason P. Howe's flashback to a November bombing in Baghdad. In this case he nearly became one of the war's statistics.

Marianne Fulton
Dispatches Editor
mfulton@dvnetwork.net

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