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Anti-US leftist clinches Bolivia election
Dec 18, 2005 — By Kevin Gray
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Evo Morales, a leftist former coca leaf farmer vowing to be a "nightmare for the U.S.," was poised to become Bolivia's first indigenous president on Sunday after likely clinching one of the biggest electoral victories in the country's history.
Morales appeared certain to take office in January when his rivals conceded defeat and results tabulated by local media showed him garnering slightly more than 50 percent of the vote, much higher than predicted.
"Beginning tomorrow Bolivia's new history really begins, a history where we
will seek equality, justice, equity, peace and social justice," Morales told hundreds of supporters amid chants of "Evo President! Evo President!" at his campaign headquarters in the central city of Cochabamba.
A high-school dropout who herded llamas as a boy, Morales has vowed to nationalize Bolivia's natural gas industry and roll back a U.S.-backed eradication program of coca, a key ingredient used to make cocaine but also prized by Indians for traditional medicinal uses.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1419749
venezuela, argentina, uruguay, brazil, ecuador, (maybe) mexico, & now bolivia... when is this going to happen in Canada?! obviously not in the upcoming january election...
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