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Bolivian voters embrace changes

LA PAZ - Bolivian voters embraced a new constitution yesterday that promises more power for the long-suffering indigenous majority and grants leftist President Evo Morales a shot at remaining in office through 2014. The charter passed easily in a ...

From DAN KEANE, Boston Globe,  26 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Evo Morales,  U.S. Congress,  Roman Catholic Church

Bolivian voters back pro-indigenous constitution

LA PAZ Bolivians easily approved a new constitution granting more power to the indigenous majority, but its weak support in the opposition-controlled lowland east leaves the racially torn country divided as ever. The constitution also gives its prime ...

From DAN KEANE, Globe and Mail,  26 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Evo Morales,  U.S. Congress,  Hugo Chávez

Bolivians back new, pro-indigenous consitution

Bolivian voters embraced a new constitution Sunday that promises more power for the long-suffering indigenous majority and grants leftist President Evo Morales a shot at remaining in office through 2014. Bolivia's President Evo Morales waves ...

From DAN KEANE, eTaiwan News,  26 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Evo Morales,  Roman Catholic Church,  U.S. Congress

Bolivians back new, pro-indigenous constitution

The charter passed easily in a country where many can still recall when Indians were forbidden to vote. But its sometimes vague wording and resistance from Bolivia's mestizo and European-descended minority foreshadows more political turmoil in a nation ...

From DAN KEANE, San Francisco Chronicle,  25 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Evo Morales,  Hugo Chávez,  U.S. Congress,  Roman Catholic Church

Bolivians vote on new Morales-backed constitution

LA PAZ, Bolivia—President Evo Morales' quest to transform Bolivia on behalf of its long-suffering indigenous majority is on the line Sunday as voters consider a new constitution that could keep the leftist leader in power through 2014. Bolivia's first ...

From DAN KEANE, Boston Globe,  25 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Evo Morales,  U.S. Congress,  Hugo Chávez

Bolivian constitution vote unlikely to heal divide

LA PAZ, Bolivia—Bolivia's social revolution gets a chance at five more years under a new constitution voters are expected to approve Sunday, with provisions empowering poor Indians and granting limited autonomy to opponents of President Evo ...

From DAN KEANE, Boston Globe,  23 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Evo Morales,  Carlos Mesa,  Hugo Chávez,  U.S. Congress

Import ban aims to halt Bolivia's used car flood

Japan's cheap hand-me-down cars have flooded Bolivia's narrow streets, where empty cabs honk pleadingly for fares and lines at gas stations often stretch down the block. Police patrol a road after clearing protesters who are opposed to a ...

From DAN KEANE, eTaiwan News,  18 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Evo Morales

Bolivians hope Obama, as outsider, heals US rift

The two upstarts made history by breaking the racial ceiling. Now Bolivians hope Barack Obama and their president, Evo Morales, can lean on a common outsider heritage _ and a skin color shared in one shade or another by most of Latin America _ to ...

From DAN KEANE, Taiwan News,  14 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Evo Morales,  Barack Obama,  European Union,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party

Bolivians hope Obama heals U.S. rift

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — The two upstarts made history by breaking the racial ceiling. Now Bolivians hope Barack Obama and their president, Evo Morales, can lean on a common outsider heritage — and a skin color shared in one shade or another by most of Latin ...

From DAN KEANE, Denver Post,  14 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Evo Morales,  Barack Obama,  European Union,  George W. Bush,  Dick Lugar

Border crossings shift back to California routes

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- In a flash the two men were over the double fence and into the San Diego parking lot. As a waiting pickup truck sped them away, the smuggler who boosted them over the 15-foot walls scrambled toward Mexico. Border Patrol agents ...

From DAN KEANE, The Orange County Register,  29 Nov 2008

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