{"id":11398,"date":"2009-12-08T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2009-12-08T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T18:03:12","slug":"evo-morales-easily-wins-reelection-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/12\/08\/evo-morales-easily-wins-reelection-in-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Evo Morales Easily Wins Reelection in Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-120809\/2009_12_08_stjohn.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-120809\/2009_12_08_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/afp\/20091207\/capt.photo_1260174345564-1-0.jpg?x=400&#038;y=337&#038;q=85&#038;sig=t5zAW37.fnqqeYQNLb2z7w--\" alt=\"morales\" \/>The unofficial results of Bolivia&#8217;s presidential election on Sunday are in: Incumbent president Evo Morales, the country&#8217;s first indigenous leader, comfortably won reelection. There are also indications that Morales\u2019 party, the Movement Toward Socialism has won two-thirds of the seats in Congress. This is significant in that Morales&#8217; administration may now have a much easier time passing laws without as much right wing opposition. Morales&#8217; first term was marked by keeping many of his early campaign promises of empowering the country&#8217;s indigenous majority and reserving the riches of Bolivia&#8217;s resources for Bolivians. He partially nationalized the vast gas reserves and helped increase state control over other natural resources. Additionally, he raised taxes on foreign companies that brought in a windfall income to fund social programs. Under his first term, a constitutional assembly was convened and the nation&#8217;s constitution rewritten. His opposition claims that Morales has scared away international investment and is biased against the non-Indian minority. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Ronald Bruce St. John, analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus, author of several books on Peru and and is currently working on a book about Bolivian foreign policy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program The unofficial results of Bolivia&#8217;s presidential election on Sunday are in: Incumbent president Evo Morales, the country&#8217;s first indigenous leader, comfortably won reelection. There are also indications that Morales\u2019 party, the Movement Toward Socialism has won two-thirds of the seats in Congress. This is significant in that Morales&#8217; administration may now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}