"Bolivia gives Morales win, mandate; Leftist president reelected; more change expected" by Frank Bajak, Associated Press | December 7, 2009
LA PAZ, Bolivia - President Evo Morales easily won reelection yesterday, according to unofficial results, getting an overwhelming mandate for further revolutionary change on behalf of Bolivia’s long-suppressed indigenous majority.
Morales’s allies also won a convincing majority in both houses of Congress....
The lopsided results signaled an opposition in disarray. “Evo Morales has a mandate unlike any other president in the hemisphere, including Barack Obama,’’ said analyst Jim Shultz of the nonprofit Democracy Center in Cochabamba....
Obama NO LONGER HAS a MANDATE and NEVER DID! He was an ANTI-BUSH (we thought) vote (51% is not a mandate), and he is BELOW 50% approval now!!!
Nearly six of 10 Bolivians live in poverty and Morales gained immense support using increased profits from Bolivia’s natural gas industry to fund highly popular subsidies for schoolchildren and the elderly as well as one-time payments for new mothers.
Don't you wish YOU could gets something like that from, say, GOLDMANS, AmeriKa?
“We’ll always back Evo Morales’s government because he takes into account the poor,’’ said Ramiro Cano, a 40-year-old jeweler and a member of Bolivia’s dominant Aymara ethnic group that voted for reelection. Cano praised Morales especially for the annual subsidy his two children receive for attending school. Higher prices for the natural gas and minerals that account for the bulk of Bolivia’s exports helped the country’s economy grow 6 percent last year. The government expects 3 percent growth for 2009.
They grew while our economy crapped?
Morales’s victory extends the stability he has brought to a country notorious for coups and that had five presidents in the five years preceding his December 2005 election with 54 percent of the vote....
If their military is stupid they will try again.
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Also see: Uruguay Says Up Yours, AmeriKa!
