Bloomberg.com: Latin America

Bolivia's New Constitution to Create 'Chaos' Ex-president say
As we get closer to the vote on the new constitution we will be seeing a lot of comments. This one is from a previous president. He was a journalist before entering politics a few years back. Elected as the VP to what some consider to be a disasterous president, he was vaulted into the presidency when his predecessor ducked out of town before they could get a rope around his neck (almost literally, but not quite.) Much of the "heavy" change in the new constitution has to do with giving the indigenous people more voice, a lot more voice, in the government. Given that they were enslaved for hundreds of years and later have had to endure injustice for generations, one should ask "why not more voice?"