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Caribbean-Latin America
Bolivian president ends hunger strike
2009-04-15
He did look like he bulked up ...
Had to let the sash out a bit...
LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 14 (UPI) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales has ended a five-day-long hunger strike after lawmakers agreed to allow him to run for a second term in December.
Mercopress reported Tuesday that the new law also gives Bolivia's indigenous communities rights to territory and their own systems of justice.

Morales went on a hunger strike after opposition politicians stalled the bill's passage, the news service reported.

Critics say the law would give 14 congressional seats to indigenous groups, which would essentially give them a political edge. Opposition lawmakers also wanted to replace Bolivia's manual voter registration system with a digitized biometric system using fingerprints, photographs and other personal data.
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