Word: aymaras
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...multilateralism in the hemisphere for once. I don't know if the U.S. and Chavez require an interlocutor; but the only advice I can give is to engage countries with regard for their popular sovereignty. When you look at Chavez and Lula and Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, you realize that perhaps for the first time in [Latin America's] history, those who govern actually look like those being governed...
...Morales' party, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), won 139 of the 255 delegates elected to rewrite Bolivia's Constitution this year, starting in August. That process, said Morales, an Aymara Indian and Bolivia's first indigenous President, "will finally put an end to the discrimination, exploitation and economic inequality that has plagued this country since its founding." But Morales fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to control that assembly, something he had practically guaranteed he'd get. Instead, he'll now find himself having to make deals with parties like the main conservative opposition group, Podemos...
Since his landslide election win in December, Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, has turned South America's poorest nation into a hemispheric player. His recent nationalization of Bolivia's oil and natural-gas reserves has made him, along with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a leader of a leftist surge in Latin American politics. It has also put Morales at odds with the U.S., which he is scheduled to visit in June. Morales, 46, talked with TIME's Tim Padgett and Jean Friedman-Rudovsky last week at the presidential palace in the Bolivian capital...
...into the night wearing coca-leaf wreaths during the weeks leading up to his Jan. 22 inauguration as Bolivia's President. The leftist Morales, 46, won a stunning landslide in last month's election in no small part because he pledged to legalize far more cultivation of coca, which Aymara Indians like him have chewed for centuries for traditional medicinal purposes and which the U.S. has tried for decades to eradicate in Bolivia because drug traffickers use it to make cocaine. Morales impishly claims that coca-leaf extract is part of the formula of the classic American beverage Coca-Cola...
...where Morales's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) will likely have less clout than the parties of his more conservative rivals such as Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, a former President and IBM executive who currently trails Morales by some six percentage points in recent polls. So Morales - a 46-year-old Aymara Indian farmer who leads Bolivia's coca growers union and narrowly lost the Presidency in 2002 - could win this Sunday but still be snubbed in the Congress next month. That would likely prompt his millions of mostly indigenous followers to turn to what they call "street democracy," as they have...