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Jan 25th, 2009 | LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Bolivian voters embraced a new constitution Sunday that promises more power for the long-suffering indigenous majority and grants leftist President Evo Morales a shot at remaining in office through 2014. The charter passed easily in a country where many can still recall when Indians were forbidden to vote, but its sometimes vague wording and resistance from Bolivia's mestizo and European-descended minority foreshadows more political turmoil in this polarized Andean nation. Morales, Bolivia's first Indian president, says the charter will "decolonize" South America's poorest country by recovering indigenous values lost under centuries of oppression dating back to the Spanish conquest. Bolivia's Aymara, Quechua, Guarani and dozens of other indigenous groups only won the right to vote in 1952, when a revolution broke up the large haciendas on which they had lived as peons for generations................. -- From a AP story written by Dan Keane seen on Salon.com.