Form Newsweek:
Bolivians approve constitution granting indigenous majority more power, Morales re-election.
(LA PAZ, Bolivia) 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.
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 an Andean nation polarized by race and class.
Morales, Bolivia's first Indian president, says the charter will "decolonize" South America's poorest country by recovering indigenous values lost under centuries of oppression dating back to the Spanish conquest.
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Update: Bolivians back new, pro-indigenous constitution -- Yahoo News/AP
My Comment: It appears that the vote in Bolivia broke down according to ethnic and provincial boundaries. The mainly white eastern provinces with much of the nation's wealth voted no, the rest voted yes.
There will be no peace from this vote. With gas and energy prices collapsing, and metal/mining projects on hold due to nationalization and low prices, the Bolivian Government headed by Morales is heading for tough times.
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