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LA PAZ, BOLIVIA -- Bolivia's leftist president, Evo Morales, vowed Monday to increase state control over the economy and strengthen political power for indigenous groups, a day after exit polls showed that he was reelected in a landslide.
About five million Bolivians go to the polls Sunday in an election that is likely to deliver Evo Morales another five-year term in office and consolidate the anti-American president's hold on power.
President Evo Morales easily won re-election, according to unofficial results, getting an overwhelming mandate for further revolutionary change on behalf of Bolivia's long-suppressed indigenous majority.
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In Bolivia's biggest municipality, a scrub-brush expanse of cattle ranches and hardscrabble farms, Sunday's national elections aren't all about Evo Morales.
Buenos Aires/La Paz - Four years after taking office, Evo Morales, Bolivia's first president of indigenous descent, is poised for re-election with a first-round majority. A year ago, Bolivia seemed haunted by the ghosts of civil war, with deep divisi...
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Exit polls say President Evo Morales has easily won re-election in Bolivia, gaining more than 60 percent of the vote.
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia | Bolivian President Evo Morales appeared headed for a decisive election win Sunday, a victory that opponents fear could lock the country into a socialist system modeled on that of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "This election will vindicate the revolutionary process started by my government and the Bolivian people," Mr. Morales said in his final campaign speech. His ...
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Leftist incumbent Evo Morales won Bolivia's presidential election as expected Sunday, receiving almost two-thirds of the votes cast, exit polls projected.
La Paz - The official results of Bolivia's general election will only be released Tuesday, electoral authorities said. President Evo Morales, 50, has claimed victory and appears set to serve a second five-year term, with the inauguration scheduled fo...
LA PAZ, Bolivia - President Evo Morales easily won re-election, according to unofficial results, getting an overwhelming mandate for further revolutionary change on behalf...
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- The government of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, facing a crisis at several banks acquired by his supporters, moved over the weekend to assert greater financial control by detaining one of the country's most powerful financiers and forcing the resignation of the banker's brother, who is a minister and a top Chávez aide.
Bolivia: Re-elected
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Incumbent Evo Morales was favored by a wide margin in Sunday's presidential election in Bolivia, polls indicated.
President Evo Morales easily won re-election on Sunday, according to unofficial results, getting an overwhelming mandate for further revolutionary change on behalf of Bolivia's long-suppressed indigenous majority. Opponents say they fear the leftist coca-growers' union leader will use a consolidation of power not just to continue battling racially based inequalities but also to trample human ...
