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Bolivia's Morales Sworn in to Second Term
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January 23, 2010
| | Bolivia's President Evo Morales gives a speech during Cabinet members swearing-in ceremony at the government palace in La Paz, January 23, 2010. Morales has vowed to use his majority in Congress to fight poverty and give the state an even greater role in the economy during his second term in office, which started on Friday. (Reuters/Mariana Bazo) | |
La Paz, Bolivia — Evo Morales has begun a second term as Bolivia's president by declaring colonialism dead in the Andean nation.
The Aymara Indian was sworn in wearing a sash on which traditional national figures were replaced by two 19th-century heroes of indigenous resistance.
Morales says he has sought to eradicate all vestiges of colonial repression and discrimination against Bolivia's indigenous majority. He was re-elected by a landslide in December.
In 2008, he expelled the U.S. ambassador and DEA from the world's No. 3. cocaine-producing country. U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis represented Washington at Friday's ceremony.
Morales has allied Bolivia with Venezuela, Cuba and Iran, and drawn criticism from the U.S. for the Tehran ties.
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