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Opinion polls show Morales with more than 50 percent support and a 30-point lead, suggesting he will cruise to a second term in the election and likely gain control of Congress in the Andean country, the poorest in South America. Morales, Bolivia's first...
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S President Evo Morales said police in his country have broken up a plot by foreign mercenaries to kill him, suggesting that right-wing opponents were behind it. In La Paz, Bolivian police today said three people were shot to death and two detained in...
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The supporters of Morales, a coca farmer who rose to become the first indigenous president during his election three years ago, casts the charter in the broadest terms: as a chance to reverse centuries of injustice that has kept the poor and indigenous...
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Mr Morales is taking a cue from fellow leftists Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Rafael Correa of Ecuador, who have changed their countries' constitutions to extend their rule, tackle inequalities and exert greater control over the economy. Opinion polls...
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Bolivia's new constitution A passport to Utopia Jan 22nd 2009 LA PAZ From The Economist print edition Evo Morales campaigns for a great leap forward...In peasant communities across the Andean highlands, Aymara Indian elders dressed up in ceremonial red...
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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Bolivia coca farmers back Morales in recall Bolivia's President Evo Morales (L) greets Senator and coca grower Leonilda Zurita upon his arrival to Villa Tunari in the Chapare region, some 600 km (373 miles)...
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Associated Press Writer / August 10, 2008 LA PAZ, Bolivia— Voters were deciding Sunday whether President Evo Morales should stay in office in a referendum proposed by the Bolivian leader to try to break a political stalemate in the bitterly divided Andean...
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Whatever the outcome, it looks set to plunge the country further into political crisis. "Do you want the president, the vice-president and the governors to remain in office: yes or no?" That is essentially the question that just under 4 million Bolivians...
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Increased interdependence among the countries of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) will strengthen economies and democracies in the region, Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana said Monday. "Since its creation, Mercosur has brought an element...
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has agreed to hold a recall election, two years after he was elected to office. He had suggested the vote in December as a referendum on his draft constitution and policies. The idea languished until it was revived by opposition...
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