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