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Indigenous Leaders Celebrate Morales Victory

by Georgia | January 22, 2006

Mexico City, Mexico - The election of indigenous leader Evo Morales as president of Bolivia is being hailed by native leaders from throughout the region as a "sign of hope" for all impoverished and discriminated indigenous peoples in Latin America.

Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Mench?d that Morales has brought "a refreshing wind" for all aboriginal peoples.

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