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Thu 01 Jan 2009Civil unrest could undermine Morales's young administration
The Bolivian elite is still trying to foment social divisions, writes Fionuala Creganin Santa Cruz, Bolivia
“GET DOWN on your knees dirty llama-face Indians and swear your allegiance to the city of Sucre” – the words of a group of young men as they forced 50 indigenous men and women to undress in the centre of a town square and burn the flags of their Quechua identity.
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