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Mon 10 Oct 2008Morales leads march for Bolivian constitution
President Evo Morales led more than a 100,000 supporters on a march into the Bolivian capital today to demand that Congress call a nationwide vote on a new constitution empowering the country's long-oppressed indigenous majority.
The proposed constitution also would let the popular Morales to run for re-election. Talks between lawmakers broke down Sunday as conservative opposition leaders hoped to limit the number of terms the leftist president could seek.
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