It was certainly been colourful. In peasant communities across the Andean highlands, Aymara Indian elders dressed up in ceremonial red ponchos and knitted caps, a rawhide whip knotted around one shoulder as a badge of authority, have been convening open-air meetings to urge support for a new constitution designed to give special rights and privileges to Bolivians of indigenous descent. Their wish is likely to be granted in a referendum on January 25th. But the new charter risks further dividing an already polarised country.
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