Bolivians Ratify Charter, Preliminary Count Shows - NYTimes.com

Bolivians Ratify Charter, Preliminary Count Shows - NYTimes.com
It is late on Sunday and now we have a pretty good perspective on how the voting went today. A lot will be written in the days and weeks and months to come about how the constitution actually changes things 'on the ground'. This overview by the New York Times might be a bit slanted and negative compared to what most people will say tomorrow. There is at least one sentence that needs some explanation by the NYT: that Evo Morales is not fluent in Ayamara and Quechua. He is Aymara and grew up in a totally Aymara area and his work in the Chapare region with the cocaleros over many years was mostly in Quechua. So paint me 'puzzled' by the comment.... He is solidly tri-lingual.
One more thing before ending a long day. While in the USA we may be comfortable with the word "Indian" here in Bolivia it is almost a pejorative. The more geophysically and politically correct term is 'indigenous person' as there are precious few Indians from the sub-continent of south Asia.