| Members of the Bolivian Senate have | | | | agricultural region of Santa Cruz. The |
| ended a week-long boycott and approved | | | | landowners fear the government will |
| President Evo Morales' controversial | | | | confiscate their property. But Mr. |
| plan to redistribute land to the | | | | Morales says only unproductive land held |
| nation's landless poor. | | | | by wealthy families will be |
| The plan was approved Tuesday night when | | | | redistributed to the poor. |
| three opposition senators voted with 12 | | | | The president, Bolivia's first |
| senators from the president's ruling | | | | indigenous head of state, campaigned on |
| Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party. | | | | promises to redistribute the wealth from |
| The vote came after thousands of | | | | the nation's vast natural resources. He |
| Bolivia's indigenous Indians marched on | | | | issued a decree in May of this year to |
| the capital city of La Paz to support | | | | nationalize Bolivia's oil and gas |
| the measure. Many of them had marched | | | | fields. He told the Indians who marched |
| for several weeks across several hundred | | | | on La Paz that he would issue a similar |
| kilometers. | | | | decree if the boycott continued in the |
| Conservative lawmakers walked out of the | | | | Senate. |
| Senate chamber last week to block the | | | | Some information for this report was |
| reform, which is opposed by large | | | | provided by AFP, AP and Reuters. |
| landowners from Bolivia's eastern | | | | |