<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0a1457d1-8619-46f7-af27-fa9ee46db3cb/0E7F1059-F403-4DFC-A0CB-2F19B0C4C794/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2009/01/bolivias-new-constitution.html" href="http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2009/01/bolivias-new-constitution.html" style="font-size: 11px;">boliviarising.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2009/01/bolivias-new-constitution.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN><STRONG>Indigenous Rights</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Strengthening the rights and power of <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><ST1:PLACE>Bolivia</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></SPAN><SPAN>'s indigenous majority, who have long lacked meaningful participation in politics, is one of the central aims of the proposed constitution. The text designates the Bolivian state as "pluri-national" (a nation composed of many nations) in recognition of the country's 36 pre-Columbian indigenous nations and Afro-Bolivians.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Article 5 requires that the state institutions cater to the linguistic traditions of indigenous people, who may be less comfortable speaking Spanish than a native language. The article stresses, "The official languages of the State are Spanish and all the languages of the indigenous peoples and nations. The pluri-national Government and the departmental governments must use at least two official languages, one of which must be Spanish and the other will be chosen taking into account the use, convenience, circumstances, necessities and preferences of the population."</SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0E7F1059-F403-4DFC-A0CB-2F19B0C4C794/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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