Evo Morales Wins Bolivian Elections

Evo Morales, the candidate for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party, became the first Bolivian of indigenous origin to win the presidency of said country with approximately 50.5% of the vote. Evo Morales and his leftist MAS party will have a predominant rule in Parliament as well which should bode well for their policies and ideas to become laws. After all, the people that voted for them - most of them some of the most poor among the poor in Bolivia - will be awaiting results and change. Evo Morales did promise in his speech that the private sector would not be preyed upon by the government and its social movement. You can read more about it here: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/internacional/38081.html

Since Chile's elections went to a second round of voting, Bolivia becomes the first Latin American country to turn left in this round of elections. Will this start a perhaps worrying tone for the rest of the countries up for election in 2006? Or will Latin American find a centre left to bring them to 2010?

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