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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.
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
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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 ...
In the US, presidential elections shift trillions of dollars and move armies across the globe. In Bolivia, the stakes are even higher. Hoy, el 6...
La Paz - Polls closed Sunday without major incidents in Bolivian elections for a new president and National Congress. Four years after taking office, President Evo Morales - Bolivia's first indigenous head of state - was poised for re-election with a...
La Paz - Bolivians began voting on Sunday in elections for a a new president and parliament. Four years after taking office, President Evo Morales - Bolivia's first indigenous head of state - was poised for re-election with a first-round majority. ...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales , who nationalized the energy industry and rewrote the constitution, heads for re-election Dec. 6 bolstered by an economy projected to grow faster than any other in the hemisphere this year.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales has nationalized natural gas reserves, ushered in a new constitution and redistributed land to his nation's poor, indigenous majority. He also kicked out the U.S. ambassador as well as U.S. drug enforcement authorities. Like him or loathe him, Bolivia's first indigenous president has made headlines. Sunday, Bolivians will decide whether to re-elect him. He's ...
Buenos Aires/La Paz - A year ago, Bolivia seemed haunted by the ghosts of civil war, with deep divisions between east and west, town and country, between President Evo Morales' supporters and opponents. In the run-up to S...
On December 6, national elections will be held in Bolivia. If President Evo Morales (Bolivia's version of Venezuela's populist authoritarian President Hugo Chavez) and his MAS party prevail, Morales's campaign to destroy constitutional democracy in Bolivia will be nearly complete.
BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--Colombia is an easier place to do business than Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and Bolivia, a leading U.S. investor said Wednesday.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales , who is running for re-election in a Dec. 6 vote, said he’s planning a justice system overhaul that would send leading challenger Manfred Reyes Villa to jail after the elections.
