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Zorro

(18,899 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 05:11 PM Feb 2016

Scandal emerges as Bolivia president seeks fourth term [View all]

President Evo Morales had seemed exempt from the scandal that has besmirched much of South America's left, but an alleged influence-peddling affair involving a woman who bore him a child comes at the most inopportune of moments.

Bolivians decide in a vote Sunday whether he can run for a fourth term.

Morales pulverized the opposition in the early years of his decade-long presidency and cut poverty as he empowered Bolivia's long-downtrodden native majority. In 2014, he won re-election with 60 percent of the vote.

But the Andean nation's first indigenous president faces the growing prospect that his current term will be his last.

http://news.yahoo.com/scandal-emerges-bolivia-president-seeks-fourth-term-050119534.html

Gotta be a CIA dirty trick.

After all, there are lots of 29 year old women who are general managers of engineering firms that win lots of no-bid contracts.

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