President Evo Morales led more than a 100,000 supporters in the final stages of a week long march into the Bolivian capital, La Paz, on Monday 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, Bolivia's first indigenous president, to run for re-election.
Morales says the new constitution will give more political power to the country's downtrodden Indian majority and entrench his leftist economic reforms.
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